Very new Linux user.....

[Cyber Source]

6.2? You really need to upgrade, other than that, a properly shared 
printer on a winblows box and be queued with an RH box via samba. 
Whatever the share name, use that.

Scott wrote:

>I'm recently the proud owner of my first RH linux  machine, running 6.2
>on a AMD K6-2 400. The installation, as you can tell by this post went
>without a hitch.
>
>I have 3 other windows based machines on my home network, on being a
>windows 2000 server which is my gateway to the cable modem. The other
>workstations are windows 2000 machines, which are my music machines, and
>desktop publishing machines for various jobs.
>
>I have an HP deskjet printer, mounted and shared on my KEKATZ machine,
>and I've not been able to configure the printer tool on my RH box to
>print to it.
>
>So, what I guess I would ask is, where a good primer is for configuring
>a windows printer shared on my network to allow my RH machine to print
>to it.
>
>Also, I understand SAMBA must be configured to allow my windows machines
>to play with my Redhat machine. I would like to share documents/images
>from my windows machines so I can access them from the RH machine and
>vice versa.
>
>On another note, I am so new to linux, I need help with installing
>software on my rh machine. I tried to follow the directions from the
>README files on a download I did, but I got nothing but heavily
>frustrated when attempting to do so.
>
>I'm going to get a book, and begin boning up, but if there's some 'free'
>docs out there that would help me, I'd appreciate any feedback or URL's
>to download and begin reading up.
>
>Thanks for reading
>Scott Fleming
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