Join NT/win2000 into a Samba Domain

Paul J Collins pjdc at eircom.net
Fri Aug 25 18:21:49 GMT 2000


>>>>> "Edward" == Edward Schernau <ed at schernau.com> writes:

    Edward> Sam Couter wrote:
    >> 
    >> Paul J Collins <pjdc at eircom.net> wrote:
    >> >
    >> > There is only one good reason to prefer Windows 95 to NT: you need to
    >> > run a legacy DOS application that NT's DOS subsystem cannot support.
    >> 
    >> Or if you don't have hardware beefy enough to run NT.
    >> 
    >> Or if you want to play DirectX games.

    Edward> Or if you need USB.

Nope.  By the way, Windows 2000 Professional is Windows NT too, and it
does do USB.  How well, I don't know.

    Edward> Or if you need shared interrupts.

I may be mistaken, but you only need those if the machine is jammed
with hardware.  The machines we are using don't have any expansion
cards in them at all.

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