SAMBA and XP

Marty Landman MLandman at face2interface.com
Wed Feb 23 14:13:41 UTC 2005


At 08:49 AM 2/23/2005, Dave Ihnat wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:51:25AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
> > Looking further down, I must be honest in saying don't even know what a
> > domain is.
>
>In Windows, when you're a member of a Domain, you sent your authentication
>request to a Domain Controller.  If your login/password are authenticated,
>your machine/session is issued an authentiction token that is used
>thereafter to determine your rights to access domain-accessible shares

Ah, the domain is how an MS server manages users, right? So of course there 
is no such thing on XP since XP is specifically for personal use.

thanks Dave, now I get it.


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