Samba Server

[Compunuts]

Change this line

 * encrypt passwords = yes

to

  encrypt passwords = no

if you are only working with Win98.

[Guitarlynn]

Wow, check out the PET's on Samba.

I wrote one of them for Win 98/ME, to use with
NT or other Win OS's, changing the security to
"user" ought to get you going.

You will need users for all the machines on all
the machines _and_ valid passwords for the
smb.conf file. For file-sharing on the Linux
boxes, you'll also have to set the GID permissions
so the "group" owns the file/directory.

Really, it is pretty easy!

[Kaiser_Sose]

Samba is working more or less

I can see the folders I want to see with Linneighborhood and Network Neighborhoos

I am now trying to configure the printing. The printer is on the Win 98 machine that I that I setup Samba to work with above for file sharing.

I can go into webmin and under Hardware > printer administrator > add a remote windows server printer with the ip of the windows machine. I get no errors when I save it in webmin

I go to the linux computer and I can see the printer there and when i click print in the program no errors occurr, it just does not print.

I go back to webmin and try to print a test page and I get an error

Printing test page with command lpr -Php bw.ps ..

Status Information:
 sending job 'root@localhost+381' to hp@localhost
 connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
 cannot open connection to localhost - Connection timed out
Make sure LPD server is running on the server

.. command failed!

but lpd is running

[root@localhost src]# service lpd status
lpd (pid 8296) is running...

How can I setup my HP 1200 on my win 98 computer to print from the linux computer