Re: samba printing is easy!

Shawn Bayern (shawn.bayern@yale.edu)
Sat, 12 Dec 1998 15:51:44 -0500 (EST)

Collin McClendon wrote:

> The only problem is that there is no samba share browser for linux

This may not be exactly what you want, but smbclient CAN actually help you
browse the network. If you point it to a Windows "browse master" machine,
you can get lists of machines and workgroups. It's not "automatic"
browsing (like Network Neighborhood), but since Microsoft network browsing
is so hard to predict, I'm not sure that that matters much :)

A sample usage that should let you get a list of machines in a domain
*and* a list of domains is:

smbclient -W itsprint -L uniprint1

The general rule is that if you're trying to expand a domain, look at its
primary domain controller. With workgroups, it's unpredictable which
machine will end up as the browse master.

Shawn