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But, because you’ll probably want to print, too, you’ll need all of the follow-
ing (or so a website told me, and it worked):
apt-get install cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client foomatic-bin samba
smbclient gs-esp a2ps
(You don’t have to do that now — if you don’t want to print, or don’t want
to do it through CUPS, only bother with the samba and smbclient packages.
2.2 Configuring Samba
I followed the instructions in the wonderful SMB HOWTO
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for the basic config-
uration. The netbios lines were already in my /etc/services, and I uncom-
mented the relevant netbios lines from my /etc/inetd.conf. They differed
slightly from the ones in the HOWTO . . . mine looked like this:
netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nmbd -a
netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/smbd
I think these lines are for running samba servers, which I’m not trying to
do (I just wanted to access samba shares as a client machine). You probably
don’t need them if you’re just a client machine, too, so you could safely skip
this section.
I didn’t need to do anything to my /etc/samba/smb.conf file (note the
slightly different location — no longer is it just in /etc) — I chose to manage
it with dpkg, and it generated a great one for me.
2.3 Using Samba
At this point, I could see the Windoze share I was going for:
smbclient -L <servername>
But I couldn’t mount it. Maybe you can — before you futz with other things,
try to mount the samba share you want so:
mount -t smbfs -o username=name,password=passwd //server/share /mountpoint
For this to work, however, you have to have smbfs in your kernel. I
didn’t, and I didn’t know how to put it there.
2.3.1 Getting smbfs in your kernel
This was the hard part for me. The first time, I tried to reroll my kernel
with smbfs support, and install that — I’d done it before, and make-kpkg (in
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http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html
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