[H-GEN] Win XP roaming profiles with Linux?

[David Duffy]

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>>OK, looks like I'm screwed - I only have Windows XP Home installed and
>>I'm not about to go out and buy 3 XP Professional licences at full price.
>
>You should be able to use XP with samba - you should be able to see and 
>connect to shares (you might need to apply a registry hack or two 
>signorseal etc).  Being part of a windows domain is really an central 
>authentication issue; you can still connect to other windows and samba 
>servers without joining a domain; you just lose out on roaming profiles, 
>logon scripts and central authenticationn.

No hacks needed. It all works fine out of the box. (even better than Win98)
As you say, roaming profiles,etc are all I'm missing out on.
David... 


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