On 1 Jan 2004 at 18:56, David wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 01:44:30 +0200 > > robin pulled out a pad and began to scribble.....: > > > David wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have some craziness going on with my Samba. > > > > > > Samba seems to be set correctly. My XP pro box can connect > with no > problems, but my XP home box will not. > > > > > > Whenever I attempt to add/connect to a Samba share with the XP > home > machine, I get a login dialog box. The dialog has "guest" as the > login name and it is grayed out. This does not happen on th4e XP pro > box. > > > > > > > XP Home is LAN-disabled - it will connect to other Winboxes via > Network > Neighborhood but will not talk to any non-Windows > machines. I've spent > hours trying to print to an XP Home box via > Samba, and extensive > googling indicates that it just isn't > possible, so I suspect the same is > true the other way round. The > only solution is to upgrade XP Home to Win > 98 ;-) > > Sir Robin > > > You just gotta love those reverse-chronological microsoft "upgrades"! > > > goodbye eXtra craPpy home edition > > > ========================= > David Steiner > www.DavidLSteiner.com > Proud Linux User #262493 > ========================= > > David, A couple of weeks ago I was having similar problems. My solution ended up replacing the onboard nic on my samba server with a fully supported nic. I do not know if your problem is the same but xphome will definitely connect to the samba server and visa versa.
Pat
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