[SLUG] Disc and print sharing with XP

[Gavin Baker]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 15:48 -0500, john at johnallsopp.co.uk wrote:
<SNIP>
> Does anyone mind if I cry? Just a little sniffle. I'll do it in
> private now, and then I won't embarrass anyone at the next meeting.

haha :)

> Seriously though, I guess I'm bringing it upon myself by trying to
> connect two different operating systems as an exercise .. I shouldn't
> moan about that. I plan to get a Mac laptop to connect by wireless
> next, that'll be fun :-)

Mac OSX comes with samba and cups. They just have an On/Off switch :)

So linux and OSX can see and print to each others printers just by
plugging them into a lan, and you can mount (-t smbfs) the OSX shares
straight away, and OSX can mount linux nfs exports straight away etc,
which is nice.

Samba is good, but that SMB stuff is, AFAICT horrid.

Regards,
Gav

PS, are Microsoft scrapping SMB all together, or just that WINS thing?