[CS-FSLUG] Old problem with Ubuntu, XP and Samba

[Tim Young]

Hi,
With all your OSes, it gets a little confusing to make sure I know which 
OS we are trying to connect to/from.

My understanding is that you are trying to connect from a Linux box to 
an XP box, and are wondering what URI to use?

XP really likes having a username/password with it, so I usually use:

smb://guest:@192.168.0.2/printers/Brother

This is the syntax smb://[user[:password]@]computer/path
The :with the @ immediately following says to use a blank password for 
the guest account.

    - Tim Young

Hilding Egestål wrote:
> Well, sorry to say, I have had to reinstall Ubuntu, and now I have
> forgotten how I did the trick with Samba and printer. Actually, I have
> never succeeded to use my old computer (only Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora6,
> Knoppix and Mandriva) together with my new one (with XP, Ubuntu and
> Fedora6) concerning the printing. I was able to use Ubuntu and Ubuntu on
> the XPmachine, but I would like to manage printing when WindowsXP is
> used. Not all familymembers like Linux at this moment.
>
> So, my old PC is 192.168.0.3 and my new with connected printer USB is
> 192.168.0.2.
> I have used http://localhost:631 and when I am coming to write the path
> I am always confused. Shall I write:
>
> smb://192.1658.0.2:631/printers/Brother
> or
> smb://192.168.0.2/printers/Brother
> or
> smb://192.168.0.2/Brother
> or
> smb://192.168.0.2/printer/Brother
> or 
> ...
> In Ubuntu I installed a guest-account and have managed to find the right
> printer.
>
> So, what to do?
>
> Regards from Sweden
>
> /Hilding
>
>
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