On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:10:02 +0000, HomeBrewer wrote:

> I have a home network with a laptop running xp home, and destop running xp
> pro and a second destop that I just installed mandrake linux 9.2 on. I've
> never even seen linux until last night when I installed it. It looks nice
> and I got the internet connection right away. However, how can I file and
> print share with my xp machines? My main desktop has xp pro and has the
> printer on it. I use a dsl modem and a wireless linksys router. Thanks for
> any help...

Your first stop shold be the samba howto (www.tldp.org if it's not
installed on your system). I believe you can also download the entire
samba book from o'reilly.