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O'Reilly Publishing Mac OS X for Unix Geeks

Posted by pudge on from the sweet-unix-luvin dept.

vi-rocks writes "A new O'Reilly book is due for release in October: Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. Brian Jepson and Ernest Rothman are the authors. Details about the book (including a sample chapter) are available on the website. Note the sash on the top right hand of the cover reads 'Switching to Mac OS X.' They say you can't judge a book by it cover -- HUMBUG!, I've already pre-ordered :)" The sample chapter information on NetInfo has helped me already.

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  1. Re:Online Resources - (Share Windows Printers) by qengho · · Score: 4, Informative

    Are there any good, technical websites for helping people switch Windows to Mac - and use both at the same time?

    Dunno about helping switchers, but MacWindows has lots of stuff about interoperating.

  2. Re:Online Resources - (Share Windows Printers) by diverman · · Score: 4, Informative

    Take a look at the gimp-print project. Has lots of drivers.

    I heard that it enables the Samba abilities of CUPS with the installation. It actually only takes a single symbolic link that Apple seems to have "left out" of the release. Once that's installed follow gimp-print's instructions on installing Samba shared printers.

    Also, this is a posting with the link, should you need to create it manually. You don't have to use the web-based CUPS admin utility like stated. You can use the standard "Add Printer" in advanced mode (gimp-print explains). Read some of the follow-up posts, as they discus printing both ways (to and from a Mac).

    Hope that helps.
    -Alex