Screw XP Home--dual boot that machine with Mandrake. You will use Windows less and less as time goes by, and you will NEVER regret it. Put a Fat partition on it to share files between XP and Linux.
My home has 8 machines, all but one dual boot. I am in Windows maybe once a month. If you play games it will be more, but dual boot is the answer. My wife is on a Linux machine, and she said to a friend last week, "If I can use Linux, it must be easy" (we were talking about him installing dual boot with XP and Mandrake on a new machine he was buying). Our friend is tired of virus crap and constant updates. Aren't you??? And Mandrake is easy enough even your wife and kids can use it. E On Thursday 01 January 2004 03:44 pm, robin wrote: > 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
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