[Wiltshire] Probable noob question

[Andy Watts]

Simon Fryer wrote:
> G'Day,
>
> On 11/03/2008, Andy Watts <g7mjv at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> l'm trying to get this machine to talk to my wife's win 2k machine. l've
>> enabled printer sharing on her machine and we're connected to the net
>> via the same hard wired router..
>>
>> Could someone point me in the right direction please
>>     
>
> A couple of questions.
>
> 1) What are you trying to achieve by having both computers talk to each other?
> 2) The first step in diagnosing the problem, can the two computers
> ping each other? I don't know your level of experience with Linux so
> if you need help with ping, please let us know.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Simon
>
>   
Hi

All l really want to do is to be able to print documents. l've enabled 
print sharing on the windows machine and can see MSHOME when trying to 
add a printer..

Sadly that's as far as it goes

Andy