FUD or foolishness? Windows XP Home and Samba

David Collier-Brown davecb at canada.sun.com
Tue Oct 30 09:02:22 GMT 2001


Shirish Kalele wrote:
> I played around with a beta copy of XP Home for a while (months ago), and
> didn't have any problems talking to Samba or any NT server. I think they
> have the same RDR as Win2K in the XP version. The 'net use' command works,
> as does the map-drive dialog in explorer. Maybe you can't join XP Home to a
> domain, but that shouldn't prevent you from connecting to domain resources
> if you have a domain user account.
> 
> I would be very surprised if what ZD says of the production version is true.
	
	FUD.  Sigh...

--dave




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