[KLUG Members] Samba client vs. WinXPee

[Nikolas Reist]

Much Larger Overhead.
XP uses more resources than it needs to.
That's my experience anyway.

Nik

Greg Mason wrote:
> 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
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