[wplug] w2k samba clients Solved!!

[John Harrold]

Sometime in August Bill Moran assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| Are these "XP" machines XP Pro, or XP Home?
| 
| XP Home doesn't really "do" networking, it just sort of pretends to, so
| if you're using XP Home, you probably never really joined the domain.

That would make sense here. Our XP machine is XP Pro, and I'm pretty sure
that I had to enter root's samba username and password in order to join the
domain. From the Joining the domain" section in the HOWTO:

http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/samba-pdc-howto.html#AEN126

It appears that for "Windows NT" you don't have to enter the root password,
but for "Windows 2000" you do. Is Windows XP Home more like "Windows NT"
and  Windows XP Pro more like "Windows 2000"? 

This would make sense. We have people here who accesss their home
directories on our Samba server without actually being part of the domain
-- they bring in their laptops and I don't actually create a user account
for each laptop. So they would have access to the resources of the Samba
server (via their username and password), but the machine isn't actually a
member of the domain.

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