[Klug-general] Baffled again - samba networking

Alan Buchel alan at communitytechnology.org.uk
Wed Jul 28 18:54:02 UTC 2010


Samba again. You may need to share the printers in smb.conf. Pperhaps in 
cups there is a setting to share printers?

On 28/07/10 15:45, Michael E. Rentell wrote:
> 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
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Kent mailing list
>> > Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> <mailto:Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>>
>>
>> > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Kent mailing list
>> Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> <mailto:Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>>
>>
>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Kent mailing list
>> Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Kent mailing list
>> Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Kent mailing list
> Kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent



More information about the Kent mailing list