[olug] Samba and XP

Jay Swackhamer Jay at RebootTheUser.com
Mon Sep 8 15:00:02 UTC 2003


Yes, I also have environments setup with the samba shares on a Linux
machine to WindowsXP machines.

I might add that after upgrading the machines(from 98 to XP) that were
sharing the disk to WindowsXP, any Windows98/ME clients that had been
using the disk , would blue screen under heavy disk load.

So,
Client      Samba share
Win98/ME  -> Win98/ME       works
Win98/ME  -> Linux          works
Win98/ME  -> WinXP Pro      BSOD
WinXP Pro -> Linux          works


> The basic file and print server functionality will work fine.
>
> If you want to use Samba as a domain controller you'll need to make some
> registry hacks on each XP machine.
>
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>

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