[Klug-general] Baffled again - samba networking

Wed Jul 28 14:46:02 UTC 2010

Some progress at last.

Having got very simple networking cracked, I now am baffled by how to 
address my two printers from WinXP under VirtualBox. When using 
Mandriva/PCLOS I set the address of the printers as 
'http://192.168.2.2:631/printers/cups-printer-name and it just worked.

Now the kubuntu distro has identified my printers as 
usb://EPSON/Stylus%20Photo%20RX520 and usb://OKI%20DATA%20CORP%2014ex

I've tried variations of that in the WinXP network printer set-up but it 
refuses to find them.

I'm still very new to ubuntu/kubuntu setups. Any suggestions anyone?

MikeR

On 27/07/10 14:42, David Halliday wrote:
> with the sudo command. think of it as "su do".
>
> With a standard Ubuntu install you don't (by default) get/set the 
> super user password. I find if you want to run multiple commands as su 
> then it is handy to run "sudo su".
>
> For Linux mint I'm sure you can:
> apt-get install sudo
>
> On 27 July 2010 14:36, Michael E. Rentell 
> <michael.rentell at ntlworld.com <mailto:michael.rentell at ntlworld.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for that pointer David. I am still having problems but
>     haven't exhausted all possibilities yet. I will add that one to
>     the list.
>
>     Linux Mint claims to be son of Ubuntu. Hah! It don't do sudo but
>     it doesn't say it doesn't. So you do a sudo and it just comes back
>     'command not found'. So you think the command is faulty of something.
>
>     Actually with Mint you have to do su then password just like in
>     Mandriva and others. Then you can make the commands. That left me
>     lost for functions for 24 hours!
>
>     Now there's something I've learned today.
>
>     Still baffled, still trying. I'll get there. Thanks to all for the
>     suggestions.
>
>     MikeR
>
>
>     On 27/07/10 12:55, David Halliday wrote:
>
>         I'm aware that I'm getting into this a little late and that
>         this isn't a
>         direct answer to the question, however An article has just
>         come up in my
>         news reader on this very subject:
>
>         "We will look at how to convert your Ubuntu box into a Samba
>         file server
>         and configure it to share directories with different
>         combinations of
>         permissions."
>
>         http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/tutorials/build-a-samba-file-server/
>
>
>         On 26 July 2010 20:39, Peter Apps
>         <peter at sheppey.free-online.co.uk
>         <mailto:peter at sheppey.free-online.co.uk>
>         <mailto:peter at sheppey.free-online.co.uk
>         <mailto:peter at sheppey.free-online.co.uk>>> wrote:
>
>            If you don't have a Microsoft computer why not use openssh
>         and sshfs for
>            networking. In Konqueror you can type
>            fish://username@computername to get access.
>            fish is another ssh application.
>
>            ssh -Xl username computername gives you console control of
>         the other
>            machine and
>            sshfs username at computername:/home/$username/
>         /home/localuser/directory
>            lets you mount it.
>
>            All on one  password
>            Peter
>
>            On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 12:23 +0100, Michael E. Rentell wrote:
>         > Good morning all,
>         > Another knotty problem. For reasons I won't bore you with I've
>            switched
>         > from Mandriva/PCLOS to Linux Mint for both my home network
>         (2 PCs
>            wired
>         > through a router).
>         >
>         > I've never used Microsoft networking and samba before
>         (previously
>            nfs)
>         > so I'm way outa my depth here as that's all the networking on
>            offer it
>         > seems.
>         >
>         > When ever I try and 'see' files on the MAIN machine (I have
>         'shared'
>         > them) from the BACKUP machine I get a password demand. As
>         this is a
>         > ubuntu derivative there is only the one password for me and that
>            doesn't
>         > work.
>         >
>         > How do I find out what password it requires?
>         >
>         > I'm sure this is a trivial problem, but only for those who 'just
>            know'.
>         > And I don't.
>         >
>         > Any ideas would be welcome.
>         >
>         > MikeR
>         >
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