SAMBA and XP

[Paal Marker]

Jim Maul wrote:

> Paal Marker wrote:
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>> Nathaniel Hall wrote:
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>>> Hogue, Russ wrote:
>>> | I know I am missing something simple, but my users can access 
>>> SAMBA from
>>> | all operating systems (older versions of Windows) except from Windows
>>> | XP, it never accepts the credentials from the client...any ideas?
>>> |
>>> | Russ
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>>> I have found that you don't have to have the same username and password
>>> for both machines.  I am using Samba and Windows XP together without
>>> problems.  When you go to the share, you will be prompted for your
>>> username and password.  Try using sambaserver\username (where
>>> sambaserver is the name or IP of the server hosting samaba and username
>>> is the samba user) and the password for the username.  I believe the
>>> issue is that it is trying to authenticate with the XP box, not Samba.
>>>
>>> - --
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>>> Nathaniel Hall, GSEC
>>> Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician
>>> Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking
>>>
>>> halln at otc.edu
>>> 417-447-7535
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>> I had a problem long time ago with XP that could not log on samba. 
>> The problem was that the user  had installed XP home-edition, wich 
>> does not work with samba-server as it has no support for it.  We 
>> found at that time that it excisted no work-arounds. XP-pro had no 
>> problems working with samba-server.  Is it XP-pro you have installed? 
>> If it is home-edition you will have to upgrade to pro.
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> I have samba running on a centos server at home and my xp home 
> workstation accesses it just fine...
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> -Jim
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Well, this problem occured for more than a year ago, and on the site 
http://www.samba.netfirms.com/PDC.htm I found this sentence and stopped 
trying to configure:

"As for Windows XP, one piece of advice.....if you have bought Windows 
XP home edition, it will not support domain logons. You will need to 
upgrade to the Pro version."

And further this article:  
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2820882,00.html
"Unlike all other previous Microsoft operating systems, XP Home will 
simply not work in an office network environment with NetWare, NT, 
Samba, or Windows 2000 servers. Period. You simply can't connect to the 
servers' domains or their file/print services."


So when you say that this problem is solvable I have just been mislead. 
Or has there been som upgrades on xp-home-edition in the meantime? I got 
curious about this issue, did it work for you straight out of the box, 
or did you have to do some configurations in xp registry?  One of the 
boxes running w2k at my place would be much better off with a 
xphome-edition.