[LUNI] Linux and Windows XP-Home

[Michael Scott]

Quoting Fhealy at aol.com:

> I have a network with a Red Hat 7.3 Linux system acting as File Server
> in a school.  I am running Samba in workgroup mode and had a network of
> windows 95/98 clients.  The school recently got some new clients with
> windows XP home.  I am amazed about how different they made it look yet
> how little additional functionality they added.  Have these guys ever
> heard of training costs?  I have gotten them to talk to the Samba server
> fine.  The problem I am having is that they refuse to reconnect the
> network drives at login without the user going into network places,
> clicking on the system and entering the password again.  XP-Home is also
> refusing to connect to the printer.  In the setup dialong, there a box
> for "reconnect at login" and I am checking that box.  Any Ideas (and
> hopefully they wont involve paying those pirates an extra $100 to
> upgrade to XP professional or changeing the systems over to Win98 or
> Win2000).

Oh, I almost forgot.  I've gotten around printer shares asking for passwords by
first doing a net use \\server\IPC$ to authenticate the user on the server.
This may help if your printer shares are on a different server from the file shares.
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- Mike Scott
- mscott at pyewacket.org