Yeah, that was the first thing I did was install Mandrake on it. I'm only keeping the
xp on it to run visual studio for a course I got next semester and for watching DVDs
at the moment.
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David Steiner
www.DavidLSteiner.com
Proud Linux User #262493
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 18:49:10 -0800
E. Hines pulled out a pad and began to scribble.....:
> 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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