An Ubuntu user is "clarity-minded" on the forum have written in simple, but effective, instructions on how to share printers and exchange files, from Windows machines with Linux devices, and vice versa. These steps are pretty much how to achieve their own "Eureka!" When I finally got Windows XP laptop printing and swapping data with backups of the Linux-powered spare computer to computer-turned-printer-server. Press (or also print) the link below for the project profitable weekend.
Assumptions
- You want to share a printer & files quickly and easily in the home environment
- Do you have a firewall that blocks all things save the ip address of the computer that you want to share files with him and some other necessary services
File Sharing
Linux
- Open a terminal and enter "sudo apt-get install samba" without the brackets
- On the same terminal type "sudo gedit / etc / samba / smb.conf"
- For the following steps to set WORKGROUPNAME windows workgroup defined in your computer (Right-click My Computer and select properties at the bottom of the window to access the workgroup name under the tab "Computer Name")
For more details can be found here
