file/printer sharing XP, OS X, KDE

[chagmaier]

hey guys...first post, and new user of linux,

just bought a new mac book pro, and just upgraded my dell desktop to kubuntu 10.10. i want to share files/printers between my mac book, my work laptop (XP), and my desktop (linux). the printer is hosted by my desktop.

from what ive read, samba is what i should use. i think i set it up correctly, but i keep getting authentication errors when logging in from my mac book. i havnt tried my XP laptop yet. from what i can tell, my user accounts are setup correctly, ive even done 'sudo passwd user' to change/verify/reset the password. no luck.

also, where does CUPS fit into this? or is CUPS something different?

THANKS!

[jeremy1701]

Re: file/printer sharing XP, OS X, KDE

Samba can be tricky. Are you able to authenticate against a file share? One thing to check is your username for each. If they're not identical, you'll have to map them to each other. They are case sensitive (i.e, Jeremy1701 is not the same thing as jeremy1701).

[chagmaier]

Re: file/printer sharing XP, OS X, KDE

i reinstalled samba, updated, and somehow the printer was automatically shared, and installed on my mac. works great. sometimes i get authentication errors when via mac finder -> go -> connect to server... smb://IP. sometimes i get connection error, check IP and try again.

also, i cannot SSH from my mac to the linux machine. i can the other way around.

[jeremy1701]

Re: file/printer sharing XP, OS X, KDE

Is your ssh server running?

ps aux | grep sshd

[chagmaier]

Re: file/printer sharing XP, OS X, KDE

what does this mean to you?

<code>
chris@chris-Dimension-4600i:~$ ps aux | grep sshd
chris 4060 0.0 0.0 4012 752 pts/1 S+ 16:38 0:00 grep --color=auto sshd
</code>

[jeremy1701]

Re: file/printer sharing XP, OS X, KDE

That means your ssh server isn't running on your Linux box. You can start it manually with

sudo /etc/init.d/sshd start

but if you need it regularly, you should enable it as a start-up service in your settings.

If it's not installed, search for sshd in kpackagekit.

[jeremy1701]

Re: file/printer sharing XP, OS X, KDE

Here's a better explanation of those commands:

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ps

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?grep

To see these yourself, you can use the 'man' command:

man ps

man grep

The first command lists all the currently running processes on the box. That output is then piped (using | ) as the argument into the second command, grep. grep searches that output for sshd.

[chagmaier]

Re: file/printer sharing XP, OS X, KDE

thanks jeremy, i found that i had an ssh client installed, but no server. i can now access both machines via ssh...this will probably do for now...