Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: [Fwd: M.L.U.G Samba Mandrake 8.0 on NT network]]

["Pete St . Onge" <pete@seul.org>]

Replying to list and Alan as requested ...

First off, I can't speak to the Mandrake printer setup question, but
knowing the rest of the distro, I'm sure it's quite capable.

You can get around the IP address problem by assigning an IP address to
this machine in the dhcpd.conf file (assuming that you're using dhcpd on
Linux to do this, though I'd be shocked if similar functionality didn't
exist in WinNT). We had to do this at a previous contract when they
bought a big HP 8550, but for some strange reason decided not to get the
network option (a simple card). 

We assigned that win-box a static ip in the dhcpd.conf file so that it
would always have the same addy.  Configuring printcap to work with this
printer was pretty straightforward thereafter.

Hope this helps,

Pete

P.S. I'm in Montreal if I can be of any help.

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 08:32:26AM -0400, Doug Loss wrote:
> From: Gordon Truesdale & Nena Tremblay <truechem@qc.aira.com>
> To: "seul-edu@seul.org" <seul-edu@seul.org>
> Subject: [Fwd: M.L.U.G Samba Mandrake 8.0 on NT network]
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: M.L.U.G Samba Mandrake 8.0 on NT network
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:25:20 -0400
> From: alan truesdale <truechem@hyperlinx.net>
> Reply-To: mlug@topica.com
> To: Montreal Linux Users Group <mlug@topica.com>
>
> Hello
> I was at RHS high school in Oka today putting the Mandrake 8.0 box on
> the school network there. It has been many years since having to play
> with samba so I have a question especially for people familiar with
> mandrake 8.0. Does the printer setup in Mandrake control center work for
> smb shares and is it necessary to have an IP address for the host with
> the printer if so what do you do on a dhcp win network.
> Thank you
>
> Alan