[KLUG Members] Samba client vs. WinXPee

[Greg Mason]

is there a way to turn down some timeouts, or anything else to reduce 
the overhead (short of installing LInux on a person's machine that 
isn't mature enough to be "enlightened")

is there a way to install Samba on windows, and use that instead of 
window's built-in SMB/CIFS implementation?

On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 03:53  PM, Nikolas Reist wrote:

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