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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I appoligize in advance if this is the wrong
place for this letter. I just subscribed to the newsgroup but have
been to a few CLUE meetings over the last couple of years, Anyway, my
question may be O.T. since I think it is more about Win Networking than
Linux, but I honestly didn't know were to begin asking for
help.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a home network, all connected to a dsl
modem/router. Consists of </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1. Windows ME Box</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>2. Red Hat 9.0 box </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3. Windows NT 4.0 sp6 Workstation
Box,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>4. XP home laptop through a WiFi
port.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All nodes can see the samba share on the Linux box
and share through a joint MS workgroup. From a network standpoint it is
one subnet with DHCP assignments coming from the router. There is no
network logon in any of the windows boxes, Just a window logon and
the workgroup is visible in the network browser function of each of
the Win nodes. There is an Epson printer on the ME, and it shares with the
Red Hat Box and the laptop,both can print to it without any passwords
required. This weekend, I bought a Brother HL-1440 printer and
installed on the the RH</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> 9.0 box locally. It
prints just fine from RH9.0. Brother included a windows driver install
disk that is supposed to work for remote printers I installed that on the
NT 4.0, </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>N.T . sees the remote printer and
does fine. I did the same thing on the ME box and whein I try to print, it
pops a box asking for a password for <A
href="file://\\ETHER\Brother">\\ETHER\Brother</A> which is the printer I'm
trying to reach</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>. I did the same
install on XP. The workgroup display shows the printer
but says the printer is unavailable.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I really need a password, I don't know what it
is or where to set it. Root on the RH machine didn't work, and I took
the password off the ME windows logon. When I set the printer up
I used the Gnome printer manager. I am using CUPS,
I'm not aware of any no password there, AFAIK the </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>samba admin function on RH just sets up file shares, and
doesn't have any printer functions, anyway there is no password prodection on
the shares. I read somewhere that this whole WINS resolution thing was a
mess with masters and clients, and timing differences from update cycles, and so
on, but I've bounced everything in different orders and waited around for the
thing to syncronize, and nothing seems to work. What
next??</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any assistance would be greatly
appreciated.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>J.W. Likes</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>