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Big time success. I have been running 4 Windows XP boxes for some time and because I had the Novell protocol in one of em, I had to put it in all to for the LAN to work and it really worked well. Frankly I never well understood this element.
I removed all those protocols and just have TCP/IP. IP's are not the problem since they are supplied by DHCP. I did reset the range and release all the computers individually, then renew. Perfect.
Then I rebooted 2 of the XP boxes into Xandros Linux and bingo. they all talk. Only thing left is to configure the remote printer for the Xandros boxes. Should be easy. By default samba runs in Xandros. There seems to be a choice of using Windows Workgroup or NFS. This is all working on Windows Workgroup.
I do like the Xandros distro--next favorite is Mandrake9. Least favorite is RedHat8. Also like Suse
JackDynne had the clue when he said to remove IPX/SPX
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