[PLUG] XP Home will not see running samba

[Carla Schroder]

On Monday 14 July 2003 9:35 am, Mike De La Mater wrote:
> XP home won't play with my RH8.0 box. It won't "find" it, ping it or be
> pinged by it. "smbclient -L 192.168.10. " shows it, but won't connect by
> the name shown or IP address.
>
> I've got running shares on RH, passwords are encrypted on the system, XP
> sees peers and connects to the internet. XP is fully patched.
>
> Googling the problem, I find similar problems, no solutions. It's been
> suggested on some sites that XPHome is XPscrewed when it comes to samba.
>
> Anybody had success connecting XP Home Edition to Samba?

Are you using Samba as a primary domain controller? XP Home will not connect 
to a domain. 

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