Join NT/win2000 into a Samba Domain
Buchan Milne
bgmilne at ing.sun.ac.za
Mon Aug 28 07:57:29 GMT 2000
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.
>
Windows 2000 obviously isn't Windows NT, otherwise there wouldn't be a
need for people to run TNG !
> 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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