Re: [WinMac] ARRRGGGHHH!

Subject: Re: [WinMac] ARRRGGGHHH!
From: Curtis Wilcox (cwcx[at]mail.rochester.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 27 2001 - 20:44:11 EDT

[Exclamation points removed to prevent further triggering of my
"trash" filter]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Bruce Johnson wrote:

> Well, things have come to an interesting turn. We just had our first
> user come

I assume the rest was "in with Windows XP."

> As of today, any Mac that is sold can conect, out of the box, to a
> Windows Domain. (OSX 10.1 has a samba client built in)
>
> Not so for any Windows box sold. Windows XP, aside from having the truly
> butt-ugliest UI in the freakin' universe, does not support joining
> domains in the Home edition.

You don't have to join a domain to use domain resources. I don't have XP
to play with so I don't know the mechanics for how to do it but they
should still be able to connect to file and print shares. Maybe they can't
automatically run a domain login script but hey, neither can OSX.

At least where you're at users can get XP Pro for cheap. It won't help
much with students getting a laptop with XP Home pre-installed at Best Buy
(like one of our students did this week, I was surprised they couldn't
get anything but XP) but if people do a lot in your domain(s) from
personal machines, you may want to warn people about the downside to the
Home Edition.

I'll add another warning, you'll be happier if your wireless card has
real XP drivers. That student I mentioned bought a D-link wireless card
and while the device manager seemed to indicate the Win2k driver was doing
the job, XP's built-in wireless card config didn't show it working and
D-link's config app actually caused blue screens. The Compaq iPAQ wireless
card also didn't have XP drivers and XP wireless config didn't recognize
it but Compaq's config utility worked so it could get on the 'net. Orinoco
drivers are pre-installed in XP and that card worked just as it is
supposed to.

It's too bad about the D-link because that card was only $89 and they got
a $20 rebate on top of that. 

-- 
Curtis Wilcox               C'mon, get happy
cwcx@mail.rochester.edu

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