Guest wt_morse Posted March 11, 2003 Report Share Posted March 11, 2003 Dear Sir, I have a peculiar problem that quite frankly has me stumped. I am running Mandrake 9.0 on my company server which is also acting as our DHCP server and our internet gateway. We have a dozen or so machines running everything from Windows 95 to XP. All of the windows 95 through Windows ME machine work fine. Here is the interesting part. The main hub is up-linked to to another hub in an adjoining office. On that hub there is an XP machine and a old 95 machine. The XP machine has a shared network drive on the 95 machine. Since I have connected the new Linux DHCP server whenever the XP machine machine reboots the XP GUI claims the network drive mounted on the 95 machine is disconnected. Buut, clicking on the icon connects the drive right away? If I use a Lynksys DSL router as our dhcp server the problem goes away and the XP GUI is correct. I have shut down every service on the server except for the DHCP server and I still get the same results. What can the Linksys router be doing that my fancy server is not? I am stumped on this one. I do know that XP is an offshoot of NT and everything from 95 to ME is Windows. Somewhere in that difference might explain why the other older machine still work flawlessly. Unfortunately my knowledge of NT is limited. If you have any thoughts or insight to this problem it would be hugely appreciated. Thank you in advance! Bill Morse Opera Systems Inc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted March 11, 2003 Report Share Posted March 11, 2003 Don't exaclty know - but I used to have XP on my laptop and I found the networking to be rubbish. It could ony l see my Linux desktop if I restarted samba and then, only by it's IP address. When I went back to 2000 (also based on NT) there were no problems. It could just be that networking on XP is broken - and that's not an anti MS rant, just my experience Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted March 11, 2003 Report Share Posted March 11, 2003 Don't exaclty know - but I used to have XP on my laptop and I found the networking to be rubbish. It could ony l see my Linux desktop if I restarted samba and then, only by it's IP address. When I went back to 2000 (also based on NT) there were no problems. It could just be that networking on XP is broken - and that's not an anti MS rant, just my experience It's not just that, XP does not get along well with win95 98 Me in my experience. Especially XP home if you ever have the misfortune of using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 If I am not wrong, the name XP Home is misleading because it is not a member of the winNT/2000/XP-pro lineage. WinXP home is based on the win95/98/ME lineage with some stuff stolen from the winNT/2000/XP-pro software base. Its possible that in the process it has lost some good features of both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 If I am not wrong, the name XP Home is misleading because it is not a member of the winNT/2000/XP-pro lineage. WinXP home is based on the win95/98/ME lineage with some stuff stolen from the winNT/2000/XP-pro software base. Its possible that in the process it has lost some good features of both. I was under the impression that XP home is the same as XP pro except it has been neutered so as to make it non usuable for business, therefore allowing m$ to charge more for pro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 XP home is based on 95/98/me code Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ndeb Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 My advice: Stick with win2k (atleast SP1 or SP2, not SP3). To date that is the most stable MS OS, desktop or server. If u have to use MS$ windoze, please don't waste money on any of win95/98/98SE/ME/XP-home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted March 12, 2003 Report Share Posted March 12, 2003 Actually 98SE can be categorized as a good enough OS if your primary use is gaming. It seems have the best balance of DOS gaming compatibility and Windows gaming compatibility among all the 9x based OS. Too bad it's going to be EOLed soon. But I agree.. Win2k Pro SP1 and SP2 is the best OS M$ has made.. Everybody thinks that they are going downhill with XP, even some MS Zealots I know. I never realized that XP home actually used 9X core.. sheesh.. M$ a liar.. that's news to me.. not.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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