Linux CIFS Client

This article was first written in February 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/328).
Extract from the Linux CIFS Client homepage: The CIFS VFS is a virtual file system for Linux to allow access to servers and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS Specification version 1.0 or later. Popular servers such as Samba, Windows 2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default.

Networked printing infrastructure using CUPS on Debian

This article was first written in August 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/286).
In a networked infrastructure, with many workstations needing to print (or generate PDF or PS files, or send faxes), CUPS may help a lot, especially with its automatic network-browsing features. Let's see how to set that up.

CUPS Server

First, you probably want to setup a server to share printers.