Linux and Windows

[Irish Shark]

Hi all,

Ok....I have a home network set up. 5 PC's through Linksys switch/router. Have a WinXP box, a Win2000 file server (DHCP disabled) and three Win98 boxes. These all work like a charm... they see each other access each other and all can access the internet no problem. I have been playing with Red Hat Linux versions 5.2, 6.1, 7.0 and 8.0, all as workstation in various dual boot configurations. My question is, I can get Linux to access the internet throuh the router without a hitch. on all versions on Linux. But I can not for the life of me see any of the Windows machines from the Linux systems or vice versa. I want to be able to print from my Linux systems to the two network printers hooked up on the Win2000 and WinXP boxes. Any help?

[Gollo]

Check out LinNeighborhood (http://www.bnro.de/~schmidjo/). It's kinda like Network Neighborhood and it shows all shares on the network. Works pretty good. Also you can add printer shares in the printer administrator (System Settings, Printers). New, Windows Printer (SMB), and then just put in the location and an appropriate username, password and workgroup for that system. Very simple actually. Mind you this was in 8.0 but it's the same for 7.2 and 7.3. Cheers.

[Irish Shark]

Ok, I have the printers working!!!! But I still canot see the other computers on the network (Linux - Windows) of (Windows - Linux). Any ideas?

[Gollo]

Originally posted by Irish Shark
Ok, I have the printers working!!!! But I still canot see the other computers on the network (Linux - Windows) of (Windows - Linux). Any ideas?

To be able to see the linux computer from windows you need samba running on the system. Go to www.samba.org for more information. Cheers.