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Hello, here I am again to mess things up.

I was thinking of installing Slackware to my PC at home (we have two laptop's too) and we have a Wlan, I was guessing, Is it hard to share Printer for those two laptops with slackware? (both laptops use winxp) And is it hard to get working via wlan?

Thanks already.

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The most difficult concept is mounting it. When you want to access a drive on another computer using Linux, you have to mount it and set a path for it called a "mount point". By default it is your home directory. Samba pretty much handles all the really complicated stuff for you.

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Ok, I have re-read your post, and I have a few questions:

1) Is Slack your best choice? Other noob distros can set this up pretty much out of the box for you, and you can learn at your own pace later (with a working system).

2) If you have a WLAN on a notebook, it can get tricky. Do you have the ability to direct-connect (just in case)? On the positive side, there have been many postitive recent announcement (from Intel, etc.) that are greatly advancing Linux's ability to easily use wireless without a lot of jumping through hoops.

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