The Windows configuration is pretty simple. In fact, it is as easy as adding a new machine to a workgroup.
On a XP Professional machine, click on the ‘My Computer I Properties I Computer Name’tab to name the machine and add it to the workgroup. In my case, the workgroup is Aquanova and the name of the machine is Darkstar.
Next, right-click on the ‘LAN connection’ icon in ‘My Network Places’to bring up the ‘TCP/IP properties’ dialog box. Make sure that ‘Client for Microsoft Networks’ and ‘File and Printer sharing for Microsoft Networks’ are enabled.
Select TCP|IP, click on ‘Properties I Advanced’ and add the IP address of the Linux box in the WINS tab. In my case it is 192.168.0.20. Also enable NetBIOS over TCP!IP.
Note for Windows XP Professional users:
Make the following changes to your registry using the regedit command in ‘Start I Run’ and reboot before continuing:
Navigate to the key string
‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\Services \Netlogon \Parameters’.
Change the dword value of ‘requiresignorseal’ to 00000000.
For ’signsecurechannel’, change the dword value to 00000000.
