[K12OSN] access to samba shares from winxp

Julius Szelagiewicz julius at turtle.com
Wed Dec 8 00:15:03 UTC 2004


> WinXP Pro or Home? Apparently XP Home has issues with networking. We
> have a few XP Home workstations that are going to be downgraded to
> Windows98 over the holidays because I can't get them to play with Samba.
> And I don't think we can afford the upgrade to XP Pro.
>
> Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
>> Dear Folks,
>>  non-public Samba shares on K12 4.1.x servers can be accessed with no
>> problems from win2k, but are not accessible from winxp. That is, the
>> computer is found, but the login never happens. The registry entries are
>> set for cleartext passwords. What am I missing? julius
>
It is WinXP Pro. Debbie, if you can downgrade to win 2k, you'll be a lot
happier than with win98, at least you can make loading of stuff difficult.
julius




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