Join NT/win2000 into a Samba Domain

[James Nord]

Paul J Collins wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "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.

I run USB cameras, keyboards, mice, flash card readers etc with no
problems...

As long as you have the drivers ;-)

>     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.

Handled by win2000 if you have a semi decent bios (semi decent == ACPI
compliant and after some specified date...)

2000 rocks ;-)

just another 2cents worth.

/James

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