[KLUG Members] SMB & WinXP Home

[Richard Zimmerman]

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

   Yup...
 
> 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.

   Yup. You haveto have XP Professional in order to have domain support.
 
> 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.

   Sounds bloddy...

   Goose