Another reason why I hate Microsoft

[malada]

I just *finally* got my server connecting to my Debian box. Hurray for Samba and SWAT!

That said, it appears that Microsoft jiggered something in XP so it won't talk to Samba. I think there are some Registry hacks which must be performed to make it talk.

So much for easy file sharing. It might be easier to set it up as an ftp server and ship files that way.

I'm not f*cking with it anymore tonight.

-m

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[mellotron_breakfast]

I'm picking up small fragments of serverese from some of my jobs; something about Btrieve, Python, SQL hanging and crashing, content management systems. Not sure if Drupal fits in there; probably more on the side of CMS.

It's been a while...

[eftychia]

... and this really isn't enough to be useful, but IIRC they changed from clear passwords to encrypted passwords between 98 and XP, and you can make one (IIRC) registry edit or a change on the Samba end, depending on whether you need to support pre-XP and XP-or-later on the same file sever.

Not enough to hand you an answer, alas, but maybe it'll speed up the Googling ...

[siliconshaman]

Yeah, I've run into that...giving serious consideration to setting it all up as an internal webpage and going via ftp. [f**k you microsoft!]