From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 29 20:47:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7862816A403 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:47:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@ayn.mi.celestial.com) Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com (hayek.celestial.com [192.136.111.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5753213C44C for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:47:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bill@ayn.mi.celestial.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B9FB6866D194; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:47:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mi.celestial.com Received: from ayn.mi.celestial.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ayn.mi.celestial.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ExXlnQ-ukO0u; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ayn.mi.celestial.com (Postfix, from userid 203) id 35C036866D18B; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:47:22 -0700 From: Bill Campbell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070329204722.GA20523@ayn.mi.celestial.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20070329133040.380a1a63.gerry@interpool.ca> <20070329143656.2f65d638@localhost> <20070329145931.2096bf29.lists@interpool.ca> <20070329151438.6fabdc65@localhost> <20070329152922.bd53ef57.gerry@interpool.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070329152922.bd53ef57.gerry@interpool.ca> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 OpenPKG/2.5 Subject: Re: samba and vista computers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@celestial.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:47:05 -0000 On Thu, Mar 29, 2007, Gerald Freymann wrote: >On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:14:38 -0400 >Gerard Seibert wrote: > >>I heard that Vista home was not designed for networking. You might be >>better served by checking out an MS News forum regarding this problem. I >>have often gotten better results regarding the use of MS products with >>non-MS products from there. > > Oh no, Vista Home Premium is fine for basic home networks. > > After searching samba.org, I believe issues with Vista and Vista printer >sharing are 'improved upon' in later releases, especially samba-3.0.25 >(and we are at 3.0.23). > > Since I can see the shares on the Xp box just fine, but can't see >anything on the Vista box, I think I'll likely end up waiting for a newer >release of Samba and trying again then. It sounds like a variation on an old Microsoft saying ``the jobs not done while Lotus(Samba) still runs''. Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software, LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 Democracy must be sometihng more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner -- James Bovard