Ahh... so your talking about using Linux for the workstations. Honestly I haven't employed Linux in the situation that you've described. I tend to keep Linux for the servers and Windows clients on the desktops. File sharing in the Unix/Linux world is typically done with NFS although you can use Samba. Since my Linux servers mainly provide services to Windows clients, I use Samba. I rarely mount filesystems from other Linux servers. SCP is usually ok to copy what I need between boxes. I've never dealt with NFS but I suppose I should monkey around with it one day for the experience. Printing will be handled by LPRng or CUPs. Go to http://www.cups.org and there should be info on setting up CUPs. RH8 uses LPRng by default so you'll need to run redhat-switch-printer in order to switch the default print services from LPRng to CUPs. You can also visit http://www.linuxprinting.org/ for some info. Printing can be a royal pain depending on what printers and connection types (serial, parallel, usb, network) you have. In my setup, the Windows clients handle formatting the print jobs and then they pass them off to the Linux server. The server merely is a print spooler that hands the job to the printer without actually doing anything to the print job. In your situation though, you'll be concerned with getting correct print filters. On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, John Lowell wrote: > Don, > > Many thanks for your reply! > > I'm afraid I may have caused some confusion when I referred to the switch > from the Windows 98 network. You seem to have been left with the impression, > easy enough to have reached, that some mechanism was desired for > communication with the Windows 98 network now in existence. Truthfully, the > Windows network will be superceded, abandoned entirely. What I'd really like > to know is how to set up file and print sharing on a Red Hat 8.0 > peer-to-peer network. Can you help me? > > John Lowell > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Knott" <dknott@awebco.com> > To: <psyche-list@redhat.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 5:24 PM > Subject: Re: File And Print Sharing > > > > For info regarding file & print services, check out: > > > > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ > > > > Chances are that for the simplest of file/print sharing, Windows will be > > easier. The difference is the amount of flexibility you'll have later when > > you decide to do things outside the scope of what you originally planned > > to do. > > > > I've seen versions of the following said regarding Windows: > > > > "It makes it easy to do simple things, hard to do average things and > > difficult things are impossible" > > > > Psyche-list mailing list > > Psyche-list@redhat.com > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
