Connecting RHEL Workstation 6.0 to a Windows 7 workgroup

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I have small LAN that consists of 2 Windows 7 systems and a Windows 8 system.
I have a HP Printer that is connected to one of the Windows 7 systems.
The printer is shared.
I need to connect or otherwise "add" my RHEL 6 workstation PC to the windows workgroup.
All systems except for the windows 8 system connect to a ethernet switch via RJ45 patch cords.
Does the Redhat network services have a way of connecting to an ms windows workgroup
How would I go about defining the workstation to the windows group?

Thanks

Guy Rich

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This is what the Samba packages are for.

Roger that. The system seems to have samba installed. I found the samba.conf file, backed it up and modified it to define the name of the exsiting windows 7 workroup on my LAN. (per a pdf I downloaded from the samba.org website)
However I have searched the entire drive for the nmbd and smbd daemons and I can't find them. Shouldn't these two daemons be running?

If you are trying to set up a samba server, this documentation may help.

Thanks for the references, I'm running Redhat Workstation 6.0 Like I said I found the samba.conf file However I cannot find any instance of the two daemons nmbd and smbd nor the services nmb and smb that are referenced in the documentation

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