[KLUG Members] RE:Concerns about updating samba

Peter Buxton members@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:41:26 -0500


On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:25:01PM -0500, Bob Kanaley wrote:

> <rant/ The press is kind enough to tell everyone what they are missing
> out on when they get XP home edition, but let me tell you from
> first-hand experience, M$ put a lot of effort into making sure XP Pro
> really sucks in a non-domain environment. You get two types of user
> accounts administrator and non-administrator, and that is only the
> beginning!/rant>

Say, could we have a mini-presentation on these new domain groups? I use
Unix->Samba groups a lot now, but that was set up with Win95 machines.
Now with XP, I could use some more info on how to control and exploit
these groups.

> > Hide files and veto files might be useful.
>
> I take it that hide files and veto files are samba features.

And again, a little brush-up would be nice.

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