Re: [Sheflug] Printer sharing, NFS and ADSL IP addresses.

[Paul Branston <nospam [at] rannoch.demon.co.uk>]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Barrie Bremner wrote:

> 
>  Howdy all,
> 
>  Can anyone tell me the processes involved in getting a printer on a
> Linux box accessible to a Windows 98 machine connected on the same
> network?

you'd need to be using samba for that. From my /etc/smb.conf

# NOTE: If you have a BSD-style print system there is no need to 
# specifically define each individual printer
[printers]
   comment = All Printers
   path = /var/spool/samba
   browseable = no




> 
>  Like wise, how hard is it to mount an NFS volume on a Win98 machine?

IIRC Pcnfs requires some extra software on the PC.  It did when I set it
up last anyway.  Use samba and share the directory tree with samba then
Win98 thinks its just another windows share.


> 
>  Finally, does anyone know if BT`s ADSL IP addresses are dynamic and if
> so if there is anyway around that for hosting a website from home via
> ADSL?

Some sort of DNS workaround perhaps, you let a DNS server know the IP you
are currently on and they promulgate it around their servers.  Just a
thought...

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