Posted on 12/05/2019 5:14:18 PM PST by ducttape45
Good evening all.
I'm new at the Linux game and I'm trying to get Linux Mint 19 to work for me. I got a number of things I've been trying to get done but probably the most frustrating thing has been trying to find a simple, blow by blow, explanation on how to make Linux see my Windows network. I've read confusing articles about Samba but I don't know that's what I need to install in order make Linux see Windows and visa versa.
I've also been trying to figure out how to put shortcuts to files on the desktop and find Linux printer drivers for an Epson WF-2540, but I've been searching the Internet for 2-3 days with no success on the networking issue and I'm getting frustrated that I can't find simple instructions.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
What do you mean by windows network?
Did you dual install Mint in a cpu alongside an already existing windows 10 installation?
This might help http://www.clickcomputertips.com/category/how-to-configure-linux-mint-on-windows-network/
Ping to a FReeper needing some help.
https://graspingtech.com/mount-nfs-share-windows-10/
NFS is cleaner than SMB, I would suggest this route.
Also, many routers have file sharing built in , just add usb storage.
The “windows network” throws me too. Maybe rephrase it. Do you mean authenticate a Linux PC to a windows domain server?
Ping to ShadowAce for Linux help.
Install GUI package Gigolo <- to config access to windows shares easily in a GUI environment
https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/system-config-samba-ubuntu-16-04 <- to set up Mint (which is ubuntu) to share to windows machines via samba.
https://www.openprinting.org/printer/Epson/Epson-WF-2540_Series <- printer.
When on Windows do you use wireless or a Ethernet cable? If you can get an Ethernet cable to hook up the procedure is a whole lot easier.
That’s way beyond my skill-set, but Openurmind probably knows what the article means.
Windows Server can run NFS. Linux and UNIX machines can see those.
This is the kind of issue that makes me not want to switch to Linux yet.
My Win 8.1 computers do everything I want them to without having to search the internet or beg for help from people on forums.
I won’t get Win 10 so next time I need new computers I will consider Linux but I hope that it is more user friendly by then.
Search here for your printer model for drivers:
http://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/?OSC=LX
As for shortcuts on the desktop, if you’re using the Mate desktop environment, right click on the desktop and click ‘create launcher’ to get started. You’ll need to know the exact location of the program, file, or directory you wish to make a shortcut for. If you shed some more light on what you’re trying to make one for, I’ll try and walk you through the process, so you understand it and can do it in the future. It may be a little more to learn than Windows, but it’s also a lot more powerful (and way easier actually) once you get used to it.
Not sure about your network issue. I think you’d have to describe what you’re looking to do.
As badly as M$ has screwed up networking (again) I’m glad I bought a NAS with RAID and just create shared drives there. Besides it gives me failure proof backup.
Just pm you. Good luck and be patient. =)
Then be sure the shares are named appropriately.
Then set up the samba client on your linux boxes I am assuming you know how to do this? If not, we can definitely back up. No harm in asking.
Then be sure the names match for the networks and shares.
It was pretty easy for me to do, and I am not a guru at all.
Please be patient. Trouble shooting over the web is difficult. There are a number of people who want to help you. We get a big grin when you face palm and say “AHHHH, I see it now!” Hoping for that quickly
Yes, I am not 100 percent sure what he is trying to accomplish.
In general Linux see’s windows stuff pretty easily. In addition to using a usb plug in router hard drive, there is plenty of cross platform uses on the cloud.
I didn’t check on how obscure the printer is, but I have not had any printer problems in at least 3 years, and I have used a bunch of different ones from common to rare.
He is hooking a linux OS computer to a windows OS network and computers. And then file share between two different OS systems. This is not just a normal issue he is dealing with here. He has to use a file system “translator” between the two or a file system common to both. So it is not the linux or the windows, it is the more complicated issue of making them work with each other.
And it is not that complicated, there are loads of info out there, but how techs “explain it” to laymen can indeed be complicated. So it’s not linux it’s self, it works fantastic and is now just as user friendly as Win 7. Once in awhile you run into quirks, but it is the same thing with windows.
In other words, I’d like to be able to click on the network and see my router, other Windows PC’s, the external hard drive hooked up to my router, things like that, that I can readily see from my Windows PC.
Everything in my place is wired. Don’t trust wireless much outside sharing my phone via a Bluetooth connection to my laptop.
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