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

[John D.]

Alan Pope wrote:

>On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 23:43:11 +0000, John D.
><john at johnsemail.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
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>>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
>>
>>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?
>>
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>I have a linux box with a cups defined laser. On the windows laptop
>(and other linux boxen) I have configured it to print via ipp, no
>samba in sight.
>

Problem is that if I'm booted into windows, I can get the laser to print 
as part of the networking setup still see's the laser as it's connected 
via the hub, but the inkjet is paralled to the main box, and even when 
booted into windows, it can't see the printer via the network connection 
at the moment (I think that I must have screwed things up when I had 
adsl connection probs).

I don't really know if samba is the right way of doing things, because 
most of her stuff, (although held in the shared docs file in windows as 
well) is mainly stored on her laptop. Samba, as far as I understand is 
the "correct" way of setting things up so that she can just plug the 
laptop into the hub and print with either device and not have to reboot 
the main PC into windows to get the network share thing up and running.

regards

John D.