Hi.
I just installed Redhat 8.0 on my notebook, dual-booting with ME.
I’m trying to figure out how to go about setting up a simple peer-to-peer LAN so that I can file/printer share with my girlfriend’s desktop, which is running 98SE. The printer is attached to her machine.
In windows, I just had to configure the workgroup and box names via Network Neighborhood. We’re not sharing an internet connection, and since I was never able to get TCP/IP to work quite right, I just used NetBEUI.
So can I still do the same thing from Linux? Or is it insanely more complex?
Thanks in advance.
not really complex, but you kind of need to have tcp/ip working. After that, you edit /etc/samba/smb.conf (it’s a plain text file and well commented) to include your network settings.
Uh, that was actually me, not JD.
If you installed SAMBA server during the redhat install, then you can configure it by pointing your web browser to http:\localhost:901. If not, you will need to install SAMBA from the RPM’s. If you have ever set up a peer to peer Windows LAN, you shouldn’t have much trouble.
In my experience, printing from a windows PC to a linux box using SAMBA is a piece of cake. Printing from a linux box to a windows machine is a bit more advanced. (That is to say, I haven’t succeeded in doing it yet, but it is my project for this weekend.)