On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 21:54 +0000, Martin John Collins wrote:
So I don't know - is SAMBA the way to go or is there a simpler solution? Your comments suggestions would be much appreciated. In the meantime I'm shutting down now and going for a sit down with a beer and a SuSE 9.2 Administration Guide!!!
Good you're doing the right thing..Samba is always easier to deal with after a beer :-)
Given that there are no Windows machines in the mix...you could achieve what you want with NFS and cups. Samba has it's uses but to be honest if you are only dealing with *nix to *nix then it's probably best to drop the mess that the SMB protocol can be.
YaST has a nice simple set up for NFS server and client...so I'll leave you to figure that out..Cups is best dealt with using the web interface
TO get admin access to the interface you may need to mess about with
lppasswd -g sys -a "existingusername"
Remote printing from another client is as simple as "lp inputfile -h hostname"...There should also be a facility in YaST to tell SuSE about remote lp queues so that they appear as printers in KDE but not having used it for a few years I couldn't tell you much about it.
Then assuming that you are using the SuSE Firewall, you need to open the correct ports. Looking at /etc/services will give you a good idea what needs to be done here.
Of course depending on how adverse you are to a terminal prompt you can do all this without YaST...However my experience with SuSE is to always let YaST configure what it can, as it gets a bit shirty if you start modifying configurations without it's help.