[KLUG Members] Re: SMB & WinXP Home

[Bryan J. Smith]

Quoting bill <bill@billtron.com>:
> I've heard bad reports about the network capabilities of WinXP for
> Home.
> Has anyone tried networking with this OS to enable file sharing from a
> Linux box?

Windows NT 5.1 comes in two flavors:
  - Windows XP Home
  - Windows XP Professional

The products are _exactly_ the _same_ with one _major_ difference, the first one
is _mega-crippled_!  Some thigns "disabled":
  - Multiprocessor scheduling (including no P4 hyperthreading support)
  - No NT/AD domain client support
  - Various network interfaces ripped out

Regardless of whether or not your server is Samba or native NT/2K/.NET, XP Home
doesn't support connecting to either a NT nor an ActiveDirectory domain.

-- Bryan J. Smith
   Contributing Author, "Samba Unleashed"

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