[KLUG Members] SMB & WinXP Home

[Bryan J. Smith]

Quoting Richard Zimmerman <richard@knbpower.com>:
> Yup. You haveto have XP Professional in order to have domain
> support.

Or the registry hacks to "illegally" (according to Microsoft) enable it.

NT 5.1 = XP Home = XP Pro -- all the same damn product.  Sad.

> 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.

NFS over SSH works great.  Many major commercial companies advocate this instead
of SMB.  Well worth the cost of purchasing an NFS client for Windows IMHO.

OpenAFS (http://www.openafs.org) is a 100% free[dom] option (including Windows
client), taking advantage of open Kerberos key exchange and ticketing (they are
working on tying in with AD Kerberos extensions).  It requires, of course, your
servers are UNIX, unless you want to pay $$$.

Or you could just use SCP/SFTP to upload/download as necessary (less convienent
though).

-- Bryan

The Broncos weren't expecting their Homecoming "date," UCF's Asante Samuel, to
"pick" them up!  Yeah, the evening was a Knightmare!  ;->




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