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Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
William

Most of them use the same thing..
Samba client and user...
the easyiest to use was Linspire. It worked right away.
Linspire is not free though... "William R. Mosher" wrote in message Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
William

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Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
William

Any and all of them. ;)
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William R. Mosher wrote:

Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
William

I use Fedora Core 5, but it doesn't matter which distro you use so much as which version of Samba you use on any given distro. I would suggest using the latest. Good luck.

correction : Samba client and Server ! lol
Mandriva worked well for me... "John Jay Smith" <-> wrote in message Most of them use the same thing..
Samba client and user...
the easyiest to use was Linspire. It worked right away.
Linspire is not free though... "William R. Mosher" wrote in message Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
William

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:59:44 -0500, "William R. Mosher" wrote:

Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
William

I like SuSE but any of the major distros are as good to learn on, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva & Suse being the main ones CentOS is more business oriented but very good also.Its Samba that is the usual application to do the network stuff these days and its common to most distros, but can be tricky to set up.
Lindows (Linspire) is supposed to be the most user friendly of them all but Linux although a lot easier than a few years back still requires a lot more effort than Windows, the learning curve is fairly steep, make the effort though its worth it.
In fact the best way to get a Linux expert quickly is give a box to someone who has never seen Windows, far easier to learn without having to un-learn Windows habits at the same time. I ask my 10 year old Grandson questions re SuSE these days, he has only ever used SuSE and finds it easier than I do.
Jonah

Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
William

Hello,
Any linux distro with the newest version of Samba will save you alot of headaches.
- JB

Samba version > 3.0 is best. There have been a few interop issues in older versions.
"Jimmy Brush" wrote in message

Hello,
Any linux distro with the newest version of Samba will save you alot of headaches.
- JB

samba on your favorite distro "William R. Mosher" wrote in message Which Linux distribution works the best in a home network situation with Windows Vista and Windows XP computers?
William