Larry Dick wrote:
I'm using debian 2.6.18-6-amd64 and Window XP Sp2. My network is a Windows workgroup.I've fiddled about and now can get windows to see into the debian box , it can read and write to the file system.I'm trying to get Debian to see a windows ntfs file system that is marked shared to all and read only and a Windows printer.I've looked all over the place for instructions on how to do this and have not succeeded in finding a bunch that work.Could someone point me a definitive list of instructions on how to go about doing this. I'm new to Linux, but I can follow instructions. Please help.
I've Never Done This But...(tm)Windows up to XP has something called Print Services For UNIX, which is effectively a networked LPD. Here's the MS info:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324078or you can Google windows unix print services for various tutorials. Or printer sharing over SMB should work, as others have said. I share a printer by pulling out the USB plug and moving it, so I've never tried either of these.
There shouldn't be any problem about seeing Windows shares. Even Vista can be persuaded to offer its shares on the network (with a certain amount of kicking..) and Konqueror is also a quick and dirty share browser (smb://servername/sharename) to check everything is working. The underlying Windows file system is irrelevant, apart from needing to set suitable permissions on NTFS directories. If one Windows machine can see another's shares, then so should Konqueror with the following packages installed. Many Linux SMB/CIFS programs don't seem too bothered about workgroup names, and will see everything.
I have smbclient and smbfs (both of which use samba-common) and libsmbclient on my workstation. smb4k is useful if you have the KDE libraries installed. smbfs (using the cifs filing system name) can be set up to mount shares at boot. Here's a line from my /etc/fstab (it's for a Linux Samba server, but that shouldn't matter):
//jredeb/share1 /mnt/jreserver/share1 cifs guest,user,noperm,file_mode=0x777,dir_mode=0x777,rw
Best of luck. -- Joe