Help! Mouting Windows shared drives in solaris and printing

Hi, Is there any article that explains in detail how to mount network folders (shared folders on Windows NT/2000) from solaris ? We have a windows domain with several systems and a print server on windows 2000 and a sun solaris 2.8 system in the same network. Also How do I setup solaris to print to our printer which is configured on a windows 2000 domain? The printer is not an ip printer, but is there a way that you could print to a certain port to the print server from solaris (windows 2000) and then capture info from that port and direct it to the printer? Any suggestion of books might also help.
Thx Paul

Hi, Is there any article that explains in detail how
to mount network folders (shared folders on Windows
NT/2000) from solaris ?The usual solution is using Samba to let Solaris talk the Microsoft file sharing protocol(s).
Sun used to have a product named PC Netlink or PC-NFS.
I don't know if it's still available, though.
How do I setup solaris to print to our printer which is
configured on a windows 2000 domain? The printer is
not an ip printerSamba can also allow Solaris to print to a printer on a Windows print server.
Alternatively for the printing question, I'm told Win2K includes a Unix/LPD Print Service on the cdrom, which supports the Unix printing protocol. (RFC 1179)
Take your pick.
-Greg

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