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From: Giulio Orsero <giulioo@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: VisionFS and Windows XP Home
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:18:06 +0100 References: <as09i1$83f$2@newsreader1.mclink.it>

"Lorenzo Franceschini" <l.franceschiniNOSPAM@alfaconta.it> ha scritto:

>They added a laptop with Windows XP Home edition, and I couldn't have it log
>to the SCO server. I use VisionFS password (encrypted for Windows) and the
>user is the same as before.

My experience is in a different environment, but cause may be the same.
I had problems with winxp->samba/linux because winxp would use as login
for the network access something other that the login used to log on to
the winxp box.
So user logged in as "user1", "user1" was ok for samba, but samba logs
showed that winxp was trying logging in as
"user.internet_email.address.com" or some other name related to the
user.
So try forcing winxp to use a known good login name using the "map share
as drive" dialog which allows you to specify "connect as..." and see
what happens.

-- 
giulioo@pobox.com

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