Re-2: [Samba] XP Home and samba

[damiend at mckennagroup.co.uk]

xp home can join the domain just needs a bit of hacking

read 

http://www.ntcompatible.com/story8718.html

regards



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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Samba] XP Home and samba (18-Jan-2008 7:50)
From:    fg at one2team.com
To:      damiend at mckennagroup.co.uk

> 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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