FUD or foolishness? Windows XP Home and Samba

[James Nord]

James Nord wrote:

> Eric Lee Steadle wrote:
>
>>> I dont' know what "simple file sharing" refers to. I was able to
>>> share resources from XP by doing the things you do on Win2K.
>>>
>>
>> Here's what Simple File Sharing is supposed to do:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q304/0/40.ASP
>>
>>
>> Note that it's enabled by default on XP home, and disabled by default
>> on XP Pro.
>
> Would be nice if that was true but so far 100% of my pro boxes have 
> had it enabled :-( 

Probably because We use workgroups here...

Windows XP Home Edition-based computers always have Simple File Sharing 
enabled.
Windows XP Professional-based computers that are joined to a workgroup 
have the Simple File Sharing UI enabled by default.
Windows XP Professional-based computers that are joined to a domain use 
only the classic file sharing and security interface

/James

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