[KLUG Members] SMB & WinXP Home

[Adam Williams]

>I've heard bad reports about the network capabilities of WinXP for Home.

Of all the Redmond OSs 2000/XP are by far the most network friendly
(other than that stupid Kerberos hack, Grrrr....)  But unfortunately XP
Home isn't really XP,  its domain membership functionality has been
removed or at least severely impaired.

>Has anyone tried networking with this OS to enable file sharing from a Linux
>box?

It should work,  in much the same sense that a Win9x box works,  except
I've never gotten logon scripts, etc... or anything even remotely domain
related to work.  Kind of a drag.

I have home users with ex-peeee home who use the VPN and have all kinds
of problems.  They are already logged into their machine on a local
account (it is there machine) and then they need to connect to that
server as user BACKBONE\\fred, etc...  The client seems to get really
cornfused.