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Posted: Sep. 07 2007,12:57 QUOTE

This might sound odd, but so far I've found it easier to share files and printers between a dsl machine and windows machines than to share between two dsl machines.

I have a small home network with a wired/wireless router and an old desktop running dsl. There is a usb all-in-one printer connected to the dsl desktop. The dsl desktop has a file share via samba and the printer installed via cups.

Periodically, there are a couple of laptops - one dsl/w2k dual boot & one running xp -  connected to the network. The xp machine can access the file share and printer, the dual boot can access the file share but not the printer under w2k and neither under dsl (but it can mount the file share under dsl via samba).

I've tried many combinations of http/ipp address to connect to the printer using cups from the dsl laptop with no success and I wouldn't even know where to start to mount a file share between the two machines running dsl. As per google, I should be able to access the scanner from the two laptops using sane but that doesn't work either.

Any guidelines or hints would be much appreciated.
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Posted: Sep. 07 2007,14:13 QUOTE

Umm, first you said you could mount the share from DSL using Samba, then that you
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wouldn't even know where to start to mount a file share between the two machines running dsl

So you know but you don't know? Clarify please..


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Posted: Sep. 07 2007,15:38 QUOTE

I use fuse/sshfs to mount directories on other DSL machines.
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Posted: Sep. 07 2007,17:43 QUOTE

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So you know but you don't know? Clarify please..

What I meant by that is that I am sharing files between linux machines via a system (samba) that is intended to share files with windows machines - i.e. surely there must be a method more straightforward than that.

I'll try google on fuse/sshfs to see what that brings...
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Posted: Sep. 07 2007,18:07 QUOTE

See my previous post about using fuse/sshfs:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=16216
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