[Sussex] Samba - I don't quite follow.

[John D.]

I'm trying to work out how to configure SAMBA so that Clare can just 
plug her laptop in and print (and maybe file share, though probably not 
as the NTFS support AFAIK isn't fully up to speed with "write" ability).

Having read through the gentoo samba HOWTO (which also covers CUPS and 
ClamAV), I'm just trying to get my head round things before I go for it.

As I've already got some (well probably all) of the various packages 
emerged, should I unmerge them and re emerge them with the USE flags 
suggested in the HOWTO? or just check which USE flags I've already used 
and then add any extra ones they suggest and then run genkernel again 
(erm is thats what's meant by re-building the kernel as I don't normally 
use the "makemenuconfig" facility as I don't know enough about the 
hardware in an in depth way to do that)?:

Also the HOWTO says

*quote:

*First of all: be sure that all your hostnames resolve correctly. Either 
have a working domain name system running on your network or appropriate 
entries in your /etc/hosts file. cupsaddsmb often borks if hostnames 
don't point to the correct machines.

*/quote*

Is this something different or is it refering to the "domain name" stuff 
that I had to enter when I was installing the gentoo?

Then there's the question of understanding the terminology. If the SAMBA 
is actually installed in the main machine, what am I setting up, a 
windows client (Clares laptop) or a *nix client so my login can talk to 
SAMBA and get access to the printer(s) or both?

regards

John D.