[Samba] Re: want to ban XP Home Edition

[tms3]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 13:11, tms3 wrote:
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>>Well remeber all...XP Prop and XP home are teh same OS.  And w2k3 and XP 
>>sp2 are the same OS .  Changes are made through the registry.  Thus XP 
>>pro features that home "doesn't have" are disabled in the registry.  
>>Don't know how that would affect the actual stack.  Something to think 
>>about.
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>That's not quite true, as the utilities and the link shipped also
>differ.  But the kernel is the same, I understand, for sanity's sake.
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Well no I've converted ...erm seen them converted....they're the same

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>>Oh yeah, and M$ is using the FreeBSD protocol stack anyway...only all 
>>users have root level access to it.
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>This rumour seems to have kicked around the Internet a bit, but do you
>have anything more than the old BSD copyright notice on ftp.exe to base
>it on?
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Yeah...grc.com has articles on it.

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>Certainly netcraft and nmap have no difficulty telling them apart.
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Probably, and as for your use it may work..or not.  Point is that the 
diffs are probably in the windoze registry.

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>Andrew Bartlett
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