OK, I've been using Samba for almost a year at work (I think it's 2.0) and it works great. Using it for a file server primarily to backup data for NT and W9X PC's. Been reading up on Samba (too cold to do much else). Have a few things I'd like to do. But I'm without my linux box at home for awile, so I can't try it here. I don't have a printer on the Linux box and would like to print to a W9X shared printer. Can I do this using: smbclient //host/printer passwd I don't know how in the world I survived a year without printing anything. Can I do something similar to go out and grab the desired files for backup using a script (instead of manually doing it from the client box)? I guess I'm a bit confused - when my books talk about accessing a SMB share does this also apply to accessing a W9X or NT share from the Samba server? Does it work both directions?

yeah it works both directions. At least with file shares smbmount //host/share /mnt -U username with printers I dont know, cause in unix most printers are postscript and in the windows world they are not.

smbmount doesn't work anymore.... It's now a full-fledged network filesystem under linux. You can use it with the mount command. mount -t smbfs -o username=LLL //challenger/pub /mnt It would be a world easier to put the printer on the linux box. Windows 9x is not a server solution, and I don't believe you would have any luck getting it to print linux documents properly. (Though NT server does it fine, since you can select the print processor as RAW.) You'll run into lots and lots of problems using windows in this case. CR/LF translation issues... print spoolers... merely connecting.... Use samba as a server and save yourself some time! How *did* you get away with not needing to print for a whole year? :-) - Mike Johnson