What do you need on your desktop?

[mikeymike]

@ whabang

Not without using auto-logon... HOw do you do that?

I don't have XP handy, but I doubt it's different from Win2k Pro in this respect.  There's two ways of changing that setting, one is when you've just reinstalled, it asks you whether you want to log in every time or not.

The other way is in Control Panel > Users & Passwords: the check box:

"Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer"

Personally I prefer having to log in as it stops other people with local access from being tempted to snoop

[mikeymike]

@ Seehund

Having support for it is one thing, but I'd much prefer it to be a third party piece of software.  Your use of the term 'integrated support' worried me as to what you might mean.  I certainly wouldn't want it to be installed by default either, even if you could fully uninstall that component without screwing everything else up.

There's probably also potential legal problems if an official company tries to make an implementation of SMB.  Let the samba guys do it :-)

[Seehund]

mikeymike wrote:

What's so wrong with FTP I have to ask... and don't tell me people seriously need to directly print files to a printer on another PC... even I just FTP the file to the other PC at home and print it off from there, and both computers are running Windows! :-)

My printer doesn't have a built-in FTP server, but it does have a built in printing/JetDirect server. Also, in a multiple OS network it's not reasonable to expect that the application you wish to print from is/can be installed on every system. If the printer is connected to/served from a Linux box, then I can't print a PageStream document from the Linux box, but if AmigaOS had a printing system from this side of the Silur geologic era I could ask PageStream on the box running AmigaOS to send the job to the Linux printing server. If I have a Word document with pics, tables and stuff I can't print it from the box running AmigaOS if that's the machine connected to the printer... Et c.

(It's been years since I've needed to print something from my Amiga)

It's been years since I wanted to print anything with AmigaOS... PageStream is what comes to mind, but now I'll have to convert such docs to postscript and copy them to a machine with an OS capable of network printing.

[Seehund]

@mikeymike

I see your point. Samba (smbd, smbclient, smbmount...) can be a bitch to set up and use though. Thinking in *ix-ish ways related to Samba on AmigaOS feels like a malplaced kludge. I guess "Samba suite included, not necessarily integrated, but with nice tools, GUIs, seamless WB and file requester usage, and integrated support of network mounted disks regardless of protocol" is perhaps a more accurate description of what I'm looking for.

[whabang]

mikeymike wrote:
@ whabang

Not without using auto-logon... HOw do you do that?

I don't have XP handy, but I doubt it's different from Win2k Pro in this respect.  There's two ways of changing that setting, one is when you've just reinstalled, it asks you whether you want to log in every time or not.

The other way is in Control Panel > Users & Passwords: the check box:

"Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer"

Personally I prefer having to log in as it stops other people with local access from being tempted to snoop

I bet you could hear my "DOH!" over there... :-D :-D :-D

[mikeymike]

@ whabang

It's probably something only people who've actually manually reinstalled Win2k/XP would know for sure that that feature exists, so I don't think the DOH factor is that high :-)

Oh, and if anyone is deluding themselves that they're "reinstalling Windows" by using a recovery CD, stop it now!  Be a man and reinstall it properly!

:-)