[Samba] XP Home and samba

[Mark Adams]

Yes, change her workgroup.

Mark.


On 18 Jan 2008, at 07:50, Francis Galiegue <fg at one2team.com> wrote:

> Le vendredi 18 janvier 2008, Yan Seiner a écrit :
>> I built a small embedded samba server  based on Samba 3.0.26b.  I  
>> tested
>> it locally with XP Pro running in a vmware VM.
>>
>> All worked fine, so I shipped it.
>>
>> Turns out the person using it is running XP Home.  Here's her note:
>>
>> I have restarted the computer and waited ten minutes and still  
>> nothing.
>> All that comes up is the mshome under the Microsoft Windows Network.
>>
>> So it looks like all she's seeing in her network is her own mshome
>> workstation and not my samba server.
>>
>> Is there something particular about XP Home that I / she has to do to
>> get it to recognize another workgroup?
>>
>> Should I just talk her through changing her workgroup to mySambaWG?
>>
>> I've never had to deal with XP Home....
>>
>
> AFAIK, XP Home just cannot connect to an SMB domain...
>
>
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