[CLUE-Tech] Can I do this with samba?

Mike Staver staver at fimble.com
Sat May 10 12:44:15 MDT 2003


Well.... when I want to connect to a windows share from a linux box, I do 
this:

mount -t smbfs -ousername=user,uid=nobody -opasswd="pass" //winbox/share /mnt/folder

On Sat, 10 May 2003, Jeffery Cann wrote:

> With samba, I have only accessed UNIX and Linux boxes from a Windows machine.  
> I want to go the opposite way for print services.
> 
> >From Linux (I use CUPS for printer services), I want to print to a printer 
> running on an NT server.  The printer is a Xerox copier / laser printer and 
> is not supported by Linux.
> 
> So, I figured I would set up my Linux box as an smb client, but I'm not 
> exactly sure how to do it.  Could someone post the high-level steps? (If this 
> is in fact possible).  I can RTFM from there.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> 

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