Sydney Morning Herald: Making XP Dance with Samba

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"Networking computers can be one of the toughest jobs, and when you are trying to make different types of systems communicate it's even harder.

"One of the toughies is to get Windows XP desktops and Linux servers sharing files with each other properly.

"There are many wonderful conspiracy theories as to why this is so hard. However, four out of five problem areas we will identify here are common to Linux and Microsoft NT4 when working with Windows XP..."

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