[Samba] Samba on top of Windows?
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From: Public Mailing Lists on 5 May 2010 11:30 Hi all, I just bought a brand new PC for my living room (Asus eee Box) that happens to come with Windows 7. I can nicely plug in large USB hard drives, any my intention was to share these harddrives on the network, for example with my old Windows 98 PC on which I still run some favorite computer games. And of course, I would also like to access the large harddrive occasionally from my linux box (e.g. to put backups on them). However, I had to learn that Windows 7 does not want to share my harddrive with the other computer on the network that are not Windows 7. All tried all different kinds of things: I switched off the "home group", I switched off various encryption/security settings in the control panel. I even changed some registry settings that I googled from the web. All without success. I spare you the technical details on this... I can't understand why it has to be so hard to just export a simple harddisk on the network. With every single version upgrade of Windows, it breaks. From Windows 95 to Windows 98. From Windows 98 to Windows XP. And now with Windows 7, again. IMHO, the purpose of networking is to COMMUNICATE with whichever protocol is out there. I don't want to deal with neither Windows domain controllers, nor home groups, nor roaming profiles, nor encryption requirements, nor anything that Windows will come up with in the next release that breaks everything else. I would like just export a hard disk with a user-name and a password and use it with everything from Windows 3.1 to my Linux box without getting a headache. So, my question is: Is it possible to run Samba on top of Windows? Thanks for your help in advance. Cheers, G. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
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