It goes on the Linux box, sparky...
 
It's pretty sweet, but earlier versions required a fair amount of setup and tweaking to get them to work at all (and in some cases people were forced to make NT repeatedly transmit credentials in clear text, ick!). It should be rather straight forward now, and the module is *probably* already loaded on your distro. So, check out www.samba.org and they should have more info for you (that's where I went, even though I wound up getting a book on it anyway).

SMB (aka samba) is a network service winderz uses, its already there. just need it on the linux side of things.
i think i explained that right, i know what i mean, i think i got it out right

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It goes on the Linux box, sparky...

It's pretty sweet, but earlier versions required a fair amount of setup and tweaking to get them to work at all (and in some cases people were forced to make NT repeatedly transmit credentials in clear text, ick!). It should be rather straight forward now, and the module is *probably* already loaded on your distro. So, check out www.samba.org and they should have more info for you (that's where I went, even though I wound up getting a book on it anyway).

Heh, getting rid of that retarded password encryption is the first thing I do with new installs of Windows around here. Editing a single registry key on the Windows boxes is a hell of a lot simpler than setting Samba up to use the encrypted passwords.

There are several front end configuration systems for Samba, a web based system, SWAT, or Samba Web Administration Tool comes with the package, but I don't like what these do to the configuration file (plus many of these utilities didn't really exist when I started using it) so I edit the main smb.conf (either in /etc or /etc/samba) file. The file is well commented so it isn't that hard to edit.

Ack, you disable password encryption? Seems like a dangerous practice, even in low risk networks.

From what I understand SMB/Samba even with encryption is not very hard. I have a buddy that uses it on an all Linux network with a win2k box for mp3s and some apps. Works well, and i think he had it working in minutes.

The more current versions shouldn't be too hard, especially with the SWAT configurator. I would also suggest sticking with encryption whether or not you plan on running a *nix box on any NT network.

Thanks, by the way my dual video card, dual monitors worked with only a 2 reboot config. Mandrake supported it almost instantly. I still haven't put in the ATA 100 patch yet so it runs a little slow(er). I will try the Samba mamba again with 'drake, I'm sure I can get it on the 2nd try. Everything else was automatic, internet, sound card, nic (of course). Still wish they had more support for drivers and apps.
 
BTW how did you know my nickname is Sparky! 8)

Ok, I have had the final MS straw. Had a dumbarse, excel froze and hung, windows lost every freaking printer that WAS installed on it, and when i tried to readd a printer it couldnt find any lpt ports.
SCREW MS! im going to go home and delete xp and make my machine dedicated linux, sell my games that only run on windows and live HAPPILY ever after!

Swell.

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Firstly Win2k outperforms WinXP in every way (gaming, applications etc) and because of this it has a whole lot less undesirable features that ppl dont need.


WinXP is faster than 2k for me, and for what I do most of (gaming) that's a good thing. I'll agree with you on the undesirable features there. There are a number of things I don't care for with XP and disable them first thing after the install.

-WinXP vs Win2k-
WinXP is the best looking OS I have ever seen. That's where the love affair ends folks. The driver issues are being fixed but my Lite-On DVD player hasn't worked properly since I installed WinXP. It works well under Linux, leading me to believe it's something to do with the Win OS. I am going back to Win2k Advanced Server next week.
 
-Win2k vs Linux-
Linux is very stable. I love the absence of all the error messages when I'm using Windows. I haven't gotten into too much gaming with Linux but I have seen a serious lack of titles released specifically for the OS. I'm sure there are progs out there that create a virtual Win environment but that just lowers the system to the ranks of Apple and their crappy VirtualPC prog. For gaming, I choose Win2k. Hands down.