LinspireKwikis
Here are some Kwikis for the Linspire distribution of Linux.
- The Linspire homepage is at http://www.linspire.com/
- The LinspireForums are at http://support.linspire.com/
- The Linspire FAQs are at http://support.linspire.com/support_central.php
- Linspire is a Debian-based distribution.
- Linspire was formerly known as Lindows.
- Linspire source code published per the GPL at ftp://130.94.123.237/linspire-4.x-source/
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Q: Setting up Epson C80 printer on a Linspire computer, and using it as network printer for a Windows LAN
A: On the Linspire computer:
Enable file sharing
- Go to L > Settings > Control Panel > Network > Network File Sharing
- Make sure the box contains the correct, shared Workgroup name.
- Leave Username and Password blank
- Then select File Sharing Server
- Select the box labeled Start File Sharing Service.
Add the Printer through Linspire OS
- Go to L > Settings > Control Panel > Peripherals > Printers
- Click "Add A Printer"
- Follow prompts -- install Epson Stylus C80 using drivers 'foomatic-gimp-ijs'
- Set as Local Default
On Windows XP machine:
- Locate the PPD ( PostScript Printer Definition) file for your printer.
- In this case, we used another Linux computer to add a "phantom" Epson C80 to create the PPD file, since we don't know where it might be on Linspire.
- On other Linux systems, the PPD files created for printers are in etc/cups/ppd.
- We called the file "EPSON_C80.ppd", and emailed it as an attachment to be downloaded and read using the Windows XP machine, and then saved in a KNOWN LOCATION (e.g. C:\Temp) on the Windows XP machine.
- Go to the Adobe website at http://www.adobe.com/
- Go to Support > Downloads from the top navigation menu
- Select PostScript Printer Drivers > Windows
- On the PostScript printer drivers for Windows page, count down five (5) entries to:
- Download it to a KNOWN LOCATION (e.g. C:\Temp).
- Install it.
- Go to Start > Settings > Printers & Faxes
- "Add a printer": Network printer > Browse for printer.
- Select the Linspire computer and the printer.
Q: How do I integrate LinspireOS 3.x into my MSWindows network?
A: This tip is recommended for advanced users of LinspireOS.
This tip comes from Scott Lowe, on http://support.linspire.com/
Configuration changes are required
Before you can join a MS Windows network domain, you need to make some modifications to the Samba configuration file located at /etc/samba/smb.conf. Namely, Samba needs to be told to change its security mode to domain as well as the name of the domain of which it will become a member. I made changes to the smb.conf file using the nano editor, which I installed after the initial system setup. For your purposes, use any editor you like to make changes to the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. I recommend making a backup of the original just in case something goes wrong.
Lab configuration
For this article I am running a Windows 2000 Server as a domain controller for the domain named lab2kd.com. The server is named lab2k. On the workstation side, I am running a Linspire 3.0 OS on a 350-MHz Pentium II PC with 128 MB of RAM. The Linspire workstation is getting an IP address via a separate DHCP server, but both machines coexist on the 192.168.1.0/24 network.
Find the lines that begin with security, workgroup, and password server in the smb.conf file and change them to reflect the appropriate values as shown below.
security = domain workgroup = LAB2KD password server = *
The only difference between your installation and mine should be the workgroup because you will enter the name of your own Windows domain. If you are running Windows 2000 as a domain controller as I am, make sure to use the NetBIOS name rather than the fully qualified Windows 2000 domain name (in my case this is lab2kd.com). The password server = * line indicates that Samba will look for any domain controller in the domain. If you have problems, you can set this specifically to the name of a Windows 2000 domain controller.
Once these changes are made, the Samba services need to be restarted using the following entry from a command prompt:
/etc/init.d/samba restart
Join the domain
The previous steps prepared the Samba server for assimilation into the Windows collective. Now, its time to actually join the domain. From a terminal window on the Linspire workstation, use the following command replacing LAB2KD with the name of your domain and LAB2K with the name of one of your Windows domain controllers. The U indicates a Windows domain administrator account that is capable of adding machines to the domain. You will be prompted to enter this users password during this process.
smbpasswd j LAB2KD r LAB2K U administrator
Once you type in the password associated with the Windows administrator account, you should get a message that says something like "Joined domain LAB2KD." To make sure it worked, you can use Active Directory Users And Computers (ADUC) to see if there is a computer account listed for this domain
Browsing the Windows network
If you attempt to browse the Windows network from the Linspire workstation, it may still not work out as expected. Linspire needs to be told what Windows user to emulate. In other words, you need to be browsing with a user account that exists in the Windows domain. You can configure this information by choosing the Network File Sharing applet from the Linspire Start | Settings | Network menu.
The Network File Sharing applet takes three parameters: username, password, and domain name. For ease of demonstration, I will use the Windows administrator account from the Linspire machine. Obviously, if you used Linspire on a users desktop, you would want to use a less capable account.
Once you make this configuration change, you can browse the Windows domain. I have created a share on the Windows 2000 server named Shared for demonstration purposes.
In this image, you can see that the Linspire machine is browsing the Windows server. One problem that I have yet to work out is the initial error message that comes up when I click on the Network Neighborhood icon on the Linspire workstation, which indicates that the Windows network (smb:/) is not available. However, typing:
smb://{workgroup | domain | server}
does bring up the appropriate associated resources.
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