<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> On 03/29/2012 09:11 PM, Ted Hilts wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1333073505.10607.28.camel@Ubuntu" type="cite"> <pre wrap=""><snip>. The second problem is that Windows 7 notebook can't see any of my Linux machines and that includes the Ubuntu machines. I know I am not winning any friends here but does any one have any ideas? Thanks--Ted </pre> </blockquote> What are you trying to do with windows 7 and Ubuntu. I have Windows 7 and Ubuntu LTS 10.04.4 both on my home and work networks. They share printers and file systems both directions using samba. I do assign private ip addresses for all my computers and use a wired ethernet connection. Have you set up the computer name and workgroup on the windows 7 machine, did you make sure the user name and passwords are correct so they match what you have set up for samba? Did you set up TCP/IPv4 on the windows 7 machine? Did you put a host file on the Windows 7 machine? (not sure if you still need this but you did with XP so I created them on Windows 7) I assume you have the ubuntu side set up properly since it worked with your old windows computer Also to get ubuntu printers working on my Windows 7 machines I have had to use the ip address rather than the computer name. <style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { }</style> <ul> <li> Select "Add a network printer ..." </li> <li> Select "Connect to a printer on the Internet..." and type in the URL for the print queue. It will look like <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://server_IP:631/printers/PrinterName">http://server_IP:631/printers/PrinterName</a> (the PrinterName is the same from the localhost:631 entry of your printer). Then click the Next button. </li> <li> In the next windows select your printer model. If it doesn't have the driver you may have to install it first as a local printer, when you do this Windows 7 gives you a choice to get additional printer drives but when installing from the Internet it doesn't give you this option. Then after you install the real printer delete the old one </li> </ul> Hope this helps </body> </html>