[Samba] Unable to access Samba shares from Windows XP home edition
Anders Widman
andewid at tnonline.net
Thu Feb 21 16:39:13 GMT 2002
Nope. Windows HOME EDITION can access Samba share, and shares from
other Windows machines. However, Windows HOME EDITION can not JOIN a
DOMAIN. It can only be apart of a WORKGROUP.
//Anders
> No, no. no! You missed the really important part of his question: "Windows
> XP Home".
> ^^^^
> If I am not mistaken, XP Home is written so it CANNOT connect to a
> domain-based (read: Windows server) network. Since Samba is an
> implementation of the same SMB protocol that Windows servers use, I would
> expect that the limitation would extend to Samba as well. :-(
> - john
> --On Thursday, February 21, 2002 8:04 PM +0100 Anders Widman
> <andewid at tnonline.net> wrote:
>> You should be able to access Samba. You could choose "map to guest"
>> and set "guest account" to a valid linux accountt, or to root. But
>> that is not a very safe way to do it.
>>
>> Have a look at: http://www.installkernel.com/samba
>>
>>
>>
>> //Anders
>>
>>
>>
>>> Can Win XP home edition access Samba shares? I have a wide-open smb.conf
>>> and still cannot access.
>>
>>> Do I have to purchase XP Professional? That's not going to happen.
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