[PLUG] resources for configuring WinXP clients on a Samba server

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Apr 6 22:21:55 UTC 2010


On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Russell Senior wrote:

> I have made my life bearable for the last decade or two by 
> intentionally not knowing how Microsoft stuff works.  However, I am 
> in the midst of needing to configure some XP client boxes and need 
> some reference material to get me up to speed on my choices (domains 
> vs workgroups, roaming profiles, etc) and howtos on connecting these 
> things to a Samba server.
>
> Can anybody point me at useful material?

Will the XP boxes be authenticating against Samba -- or merely using 
resources exported by Samba? If the latter, how is authentication 
being done?

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