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[JoeHill]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:14:50 -0500
David Tilbrook disseminated the following:

> > It says only for XP Pro.  I wonder if it's possible to make it work with 
> > XP Home, as I don't feel like giving his Billyness any more money.
> > 
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> SFU is indeed free and will work on W2K as well as XP pro,
> but not XP personal.  Bite the bullet ... XP is only $30.
> 
> Warning: SFU needs to be on an NTFS file system.
> 
> SFU combined with an X server it provides a quite reasonable
> environment if one is forced to use windows.
> 
> Unfortunately one does need the C++.net product to build software.
> 
> There are minor glitches -- really slow when accessing samba file
> systems and I have not as yet got the nfs stuff working.

Sooooo much simpler to ditch the Windows ADS and just run a Samba DC, and it's
all freeeeeee!

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