Samba with Windows XP client

[Aaron Konstam]

On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 23:01 -0500, Jud Craft wrote: 
> > in theory what you suggest should work. but I've certainly had plenty
> > of cases where for reasons unknown to me I couldn't browse to a
> > particular machine or share, but could manually mount it just fine.
> 
> I second this.  I have -never- gotten Windows Network browsing to work
> reliably, under either the latest versions of Ubuntu or Fedora.  And
> that's after browsing through numerous Samba packages and firewall
> settings posts for both distros (although at least Fedora has that
> handy Samba toggle in system-config-firewall).
> 
> For the lay person, it's just unconquerable.  Being able to integrate
> into the local network should be a default feature for desktop users,
> with little to no configuration needed.
> 
> Heck, I can't even get Gnome's User File Sharing to work between
> Ubuntu and Fedora unless I completely deactivate the firewalls -- and
> Fedora doesn't come with the correct packages installed by default;
> you have to hunt down certain Apache and DAV packages yourself before
> you can activate the -built-in- file sharing!
> 
> Couple this with bugreports that GVFS (the new GNOME filesystem
> library) can't do logins to certain Windows domains, WebDAV using NTLM
> (a type of Windows authentication that has been successfully
> implemented elsewhere), or support different profiles (like read-only
> Guest, but read-write requires a real account on the target PC) and
> network-sharing is just a pain in the arse.
> 
> I apologize for the bitterness.
> 
What is interesting is that the disk on my Wife's XP machine shows up by
default under the Computer icon on my desktop. I never did anything
consciously to put it there.
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