connecting to a winxp box

[William Hooper]

Dennis Calhoun said:
> I'm glad there are people that are so willing to assist those of us
> that don't know nearly as much about Linux, but while reading this
> thread I am again finding myself thinking, "What a ridiculously clunky
> and confusing mess this whole Linux to Windows networking thing is.
> How I wish that SOME version of Linux was anywhere NEAR as easy to set
> up a home network for as Windows is. Maybe, just maybe, one day..."

Sure, just get your Windows to connect to the Unix standard file sharing
(NFS) and you won't have any problems...

It is a clunky mess because Microsoft uses closed source messes.  Samba is
an amazing piece of software considering.

-- 
William Hooper