Calling all geeks: Linux net help

[RevJim 0]

OK, I am really liking this Red Hat 9 (after a shit load of tweaking), but I have hit a wall. I have my printer and scanner hooked up perfectly to the RH9 machine, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to share them on my network. In fact, I can't even see them on either my XP or my 2000 machines.

I' ve done quite a few searches and come up empty handed. Is there a setting in Linux that needs to be changed for Windows to see it, or is it vice versa, allowing Windows to 'see'?

AARRGGHH! (and don't even get me started on 'WINE'. )

Also for some reason, the Linux version of Folding @ Home crashes the kernal, constantly.

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[AggieDave 6]

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-9.html

bam

All you have to do is ask google and it'll tell you the answers.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[RevJim 0]

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http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-9.html

bam

All you have to do is ask google and it'll tell you the answers.

I tried that, and I must not have had the right keywords!

Thanks dave....off to experiment!

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[AggieDave 6]

The important search string is SMB, that's what makes that search work.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[nate_1979 9]

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http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO-9.html

bam

All you have to do is ask google and it'll tell you the answers.

I tried that, and I must not have had the right keywords!

Thanks dave....off to experiment!

Keep www.tldp.org in your favorites list if you plan on using linux, you will find the EVERYTHING there... I refered to that site alot while learning linux. Another great source is to get on IRC and goto the "undernet" and check out the #linuxhelp room

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[Guest]

Rev,

If you loaded Samba on the initial installation, you can invoke the Samba daemons by opening a command window and typing--

smbd -D
nmbd -D

(both of these commands are case sensitive)

You should probably grep those two first, to see if they show up with PIDs.

open a terminal window and type--

ps -ef|grep smbd
ps -ef|grep nmbd

If you don't see these processes or can't invoke them, you'll have to install Samba from CD (the RPM for Samba shouldn't have any unusal dependencies, so it should go right through).

Then start a Konqueror session and put "smb: / /" in the address (note the space between the slashes).

You should see any shared devices at that point.

You should also make sure the permissions apply to all users, not just root, but that should be automatic.

I may be leaving out a step or two, so I'll leave it to others to fill in the holes.

mh

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edit to add ps - did you uncomment the /etc/smb.conf?

[RevJim 0]

thanks mark. I'm on campus now, and the next time I'll be at home and awake enough to play with it is wed. afternoon. thanks for the help, I'll be using your post as my starting point!

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[DontPanic 0]

A few other tips and tricks.

You can type:

rpm -qa | grep samba

to see if you have the samba packages installed.

Since this is Redhat, the keyboard commands for starting samba are probably in /etc/init.d/

So you can type:

/etc/init.d/smb status

to see if the samba daemon is running.

You can type:

/etc/init.d/smb start

to start samba, and...

/etc/init.d/smb stop

to stop samba.

Let us know if you are using KDE or Gnome or just trying to do this from shell commands. KDE or Gnome will each have graphical samba configuration tools, or you can install SWAT ('rpm -qa | grep swat' to see if it is installed) to manage Samba from a web browser. Or you can use the How-To Aggiedave refers to for setting it up manually.

[RevJim 0]

Using gnome (for now), but plan on switching to pure console once i figure it all out. it's all newto me, which actually makes it kinda fun.

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[Guest]

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Using gnome (for now), but plan on switching to pure console once i figure it all out. it's all newto me, which actually makes it kinda fun.

Yup, Linux is kewl beanz...

Which inspires me to create another techie thread...

mh

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