<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.18.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi, <A HREF="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba</A> says: "Do you need Samba? <TT>Samba</TT> is a metapackage and intended to be installed on servers. Clients do not need this metapackage. The Samba metapackage is not necessary on clients to: .... <UL> <LI>Have your Windows computer use (via a network) a printer that is attached to a Linux computer. CUPS can be configured to make the printer accessible to the network.  ... " </UL> All my computers are allocated fixed addresses via DHCP. I have a Windows LAN (workgroup "CEDARS") and Ubuntu computers without a workgroup name. The Ubuntu computers are named in the format of fqdn in /etc/hosts, e.g., computer1.dryder.org computer1 (/etc/hostname file entry: computer1). I can see/share my Windows computers without samba. I want to share Ubuntu computers and printers with Windows. How can I do this without samba, as implied in the guide above? I would very much rather not install samba as then I get all computers duplicated in Networks - once in Network and again in Network>Windows Network>CEDARS> I find this annoying. Can Windows use Ubuntu computers and printers without samba? If so, please, how? Many thanks, David </BODY> </HTML>