[ILUG] Samba Client Setup

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:05:39PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Marek Mc Gann thought:
> Hi,
> 
> Relative newbie, but trying to move away from Windows as completely as
> possible.
> 
> I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on my laptop, but am forced to use Windows when I
> plug in at work because of the NT network there. I figure it should be
> straightfoward enough to set up Samba to allow to keep using linux, but all
> of the documentation I can find is about setting up Windows clients to samba
> servers, rather than the other way round.
> 
> Assuming I can get my sysadmin's go ahead (and he's usually open minded
> about things, he's experimented before), how do I go about setting up myself
> as a client on an NT network?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marek.

Don't forget smbprint to access NT shared printers though many modern
office printers should be accessible by IP address using printcap and lpr.

The other thing to remember is that you can have mutt access your M$
Exchange mail server via IMAP

Conor
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