Yea..I like it..SuSe 8.2

[Terminal23]

WOW....I just installed and I like it.Very easy and very painless.It did everything and I just sat and watched.Except for putting in the cd's and configuring a few minor network issues.Now for some fun.
P.S.Quick question.Is it possible and how hard if it is to use the printer I have attached to a Windows box to use with SuSe?I guess I should read the doc's first!

[Creatures]

good you like it!

i love it too!

BTW check out the games

Creatures

[DanGrease]

Its an excellent and sweet distro, you'll probably love it when you start knowing it. First time I tried it I got amazed by its eye-candy, great stuff

dan

[Terminal23]

And whats so amazing about it ,is that it's so well built,so inexspensive and more than likely,there are thousands of people working on it everday to improve it.I feel like a kid in a computer store.What to get next?

[Mead]

samba is probalby what you'll wanna use to access the printer hanging off the windows box. Make sure you've got it set as shared on the windows box.

[CMonster]

tell us about your hardware, and what model of printer is it?

[Bullion]

there are some cheap and nasty printers going around similar to the winmodems that do alot of processing in software. These "win" printers do not always work with linux. I know cause my flatmate has a cannon lasershot 1120 that was cheap but unfortunatly there are no drivers available

[Terminal23]

Printer is a Canon S400.MB is an Epox 8K5A model.I set up the Linux box as a stand alone also.Do I need to change it to Network?Also,I don't see any Linux drivers in Windows for printers where it says add additional drivers.
Im trying to install Samba.Little different then Windows.I take it that I can only install file extentions with .rpm on them for this particular Distro?Not .Tar

[Jeordiewhite]

I finally got a computer setup to do full time suse linux 8.2
I loved the games on it i must admit, it's nice finally getting back to linux, next i must upgrade kde then work on samba.

[CMonster]

You are about to bite off quite a bit for a Linux newbie -go ahead and plunge right in, but don't be frustrated if for a while you don't get everyting working the way you want.

Samba is the program that allows connectivity and file/printer sharing to Windows networks -the easiest way to configure it for newbies is "SWAT"

On a level of difficulty 1to10 Samba is probably about a 8/10 for most newbies, (getting Linux installed initially being 5/10) so be prepared to do quite a bit of reading.

Samba is not a printer suite -it will allow to connect to Windows shared printers, but you will likely be using a CUPS or STP printing driver/suite, and that is where you would find a driver for the printer. www.linuxprinting.org shows that printer is mostly supported, and notes that the STP driver for BJC3000 should work perfectly.

Start by using YaST to configure your system -get familliar with the package tools and your system before trying to download and install .rpm files or anything else. Your SuSE 8.2 comes with Samba and CUPS on the CDs/DVD and these can be easily installed with YaST -once installed they must be configured, and this is usually a little more difficult.

It's been ages since I used Samba, but I may fire up the old Win9x machine and try a Samba printer share over the weekend just to document how it is done.

Start with YaST -good luck