[KLUG Members] Samba client vs. WinXPee

[Greg Mason]

well, got a question:

my school has a windows 2000 file server that has everybody's personal 
"H: drive" (as it's called here). Over the wireless and Cisco VPN, my 
Mac (os 10.2.6) and my linux machine (SuSE 8.2) both connect to the file 
server instantly. when a windows XP machine is on the wireless, it takes 
about 2 minutes or more to bring up the username/password prompt. I 
talked to the IT department here, they don't think much can be done 
about it. My question to your all is, why is Samba so much better over 
the wireless here than windoze?

-Greg