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XP home uses "simple filesharing"
Authored by: qrulf on Dec 13, '05 06:56:01AM

I have exactly the same problem with Windows XP Home and I think it has something to do with Windows XP Home is using "simple filesharing", as described here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;307874

Only on windows xp professional you can change between the simple filesharing and "real" filesharing with users and passwords. Unfortunately I cannot get samba on macosx to recognize the browse list from the windows XP home machine, using smbclient -L. That is usually no problem with XP pro and 2000 machines.

I have not found a way to fix this problem :-s

~ Jørgen



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