Re: Samba newbie question

From: Lenard (lenard_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 09/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 17:42:06 GMT

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:05:15 -0400, jch wrote:

> I'm just learning Linux and have a dual boot (Win XP and Fedora) system.
> I'm trying to figure out how to configure Samba and thought I'd get some
> basic information first. I'd like to be able to boot in either Windows
> or Linux at any time and not affect the networking and printing
> capabilities of the other Windows computers in my home network. Will
> Samba allow me to do this?

Yes, as long as the Windows clients are configured properly.

> The printers *are* connected to the dual-boot PC and I'd like to know if
> booting up in either XP or Linux will adversely affect the other PCs in
> their ability to print without any glitches.

Depends, you need to make sure that both the Linux samba configuration and
the Windows XP configuration for the 'printer shares' are the same.
Windows default 'printer shares' are not quite the same as the Linux samba
'printer shares' both at the 'sever' and 'client' side.

> Forcing the other Windows computers to have to relog onto the network
> because I booted into Linux would be considered a glitch. Thanks.

This should not be a problem when you have 'matching' configurations with
both Linux and Windows XP. Do the research, planning and work-- to get you
started;

http://us3.samba.org/samba/
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000pro/deploy/depopt/scsunix.mspx

On a side note, please do not multi-post. I almost decided not to reply to
this message (your third posting, in as many newsgroups that I have seen,
of the exact same message in less than 1 hour). Multi-posting is consider
bad, if you feel that you need to ask the same question in multiple
newsgroups cross-post (to less than 5) instead with follow ups sent to
only one of the newsgroups please. 

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