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Re: getting debian to talk to windows



Quoting "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net>:

> On Tuesday 10 February 2009 17:01:25 Larry Dick wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Samba, in particular mount.smbfs, should get you access to that filesystem.
> I'm not sure how to talk to Windows printers from Linux.

I beleive the new way is to use mount.cifs, I think cifs is taking over from smbfs

 

as for printing why not point cups at the windows pinter (haven't tried this, but I have used cups to printer to many other types of printer shares)

 

Alex


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