About Me

I'm a Sri Lankan, mechanical engineering student studying in Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Although messing with mechanical stuff is my favourite past time I do spend quite some time messing around with PC's as well. I started messing around with ubuntu about a year back so I thought of making this blog and adding whatever I learnt so that newbies like me can hopefully pick up a thing or two. Please take note that most things i write on the blogs are what I picked up from the internet (I'll try to add the sources whenever possible) or what I learnt by trial and error. I am always willing to learn so please give your comments. Being decent while commenting wouldn't hurt :D

Friday, June 4, 2010

Access Shared Windows Folder and Printer from Ubuntu

Folder
I really wanted to access a Folder my housemate was sharing from my Comp. Went to life hacker and read an awesome post to get the job done. Basically all you have to do is
  1. press alt+F2
  2. Type smb://192.168.0.14/SesameStreet
replace the IP address with the IP address of the computer that you want to access and "Shared" with the name of the folder you want to access. 
How you find the IP of the PC you want to access is 
  • Go to "run"
  • Type "cmd"
  • Type "ipconfig/all"
Printer
For the printer the job is much easier.
  • Simply go to Admin-> Printing.
  • There you will see a tab called server. Click that and go to settings. Tick Show printers shared by others and accept.
  • Then go to New-> Printer
  • Since your interested in a Network Printer choose Windows Printer via Samba.
  • Browse and Find the Printer you want. (Make sure you have your printer model. Otherwise you need a driver update. I had a HP printer so i downloaded and installed the latest HPLIP. The link is below and installation instructions are also there. If you had to install new drivers do the above steps from the start again )
  • Print a Test Page if you want to be sure.
Job Done :D
http://lifehacker.com/288033/mount-a-windows-shared-folder-in-linux
http://www.watchingthenet.com/connecting-to-shared-printers-on-windows-computers.html
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/install/install/index.html
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