Re: Variety of Questions

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

I'm cleaning up some mail (over 500, *sigh*), and I noticed this...  I
don't recall seeing an answer, so here goes...

Bill Dunn said:
[...]
> the NFS doesn't work. When I try to mount a directory from computer2 to the
> /mnt/nfs directory on computer1, computer1 gives me this error:

Try running portmap, then rpc.nfsd & rpc.mountd by hand, or by doing

    cd /etc/rc.d/init.d ; for foo in stop start ; do ./portmap $foo ; \
    ./nfs $foo ; done

See if you get any useful error messages then.

> 	Also, surely someone also knows how to print from a Linux (RH 5.0) machine
> to a Windows 95 network printer. I've looked thru the smb.conf file but
> don't really see anything for printing to a Windows machine. As far as that
> goes I know how to mount (or map) the RH 5.0 machine to a Windows 95 drive
> but how do you look at the Windows drives from the Linux box?

To print to the Windows box, take a look at the smbprint script (which
is probably in /usr/doc/samba-1.9.17p4/examples/printing/).  It
basically runs smbclient with the appropriate options & feeds it
stdin.  To see shares on the Windows box, either use smbclient or
smbmount (assuming you have smbfs support in your kernel).  (There's
more information about smbfs in the kernel source Documentation
directory. You'll want to look at
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/smbfs.txt)

Steve
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