[olug] Samba and XP

[Kenton Brede]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:32:51AM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> Craig Wolf wrote:
> >This may sound stupid but I have a big fish I am trying to catch and
> >don't want to put my foot in my mouth.  Will XP work with Samba?  I
> >have a new location that I may be taking over and I want a Linux
> >server in place of my competitors choice of Win2003 but this keys on
> >the above question.
> 
> 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.

In addition, if you want the DC stuff to work make sure you aren't using
XP home addition.  This may have changed but when I was setting up our
DC about 6 months ago that was the case.  
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/
is a good place to start.
Kent  

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