Waaaaaayyyyyy back in 80s...
MS bought or "acquired" or whatever they need at time to
have some stuff to charge license fees for and literally implode
whoever gets in their way..
LAN Manager.. LANtastic.. whatever they did to rename that shit
it is a NetBIOS SMB Frankenstein dated 80s and suited to fill the
gap where Novell Netware was prevalent..
So.. by 90s they had a functional "GUI" with that shitty services
where you are allowed to "share" (your stuff) files.. printers..
with networked *windoozeee* OS.. (by that time OS/2 already
had such similar SMB based stuff).. but interoperability of course
was never in the agenda..
So.. that 80s crap shit
is still there.. mostly as their
solution to allow you to access your stuff (aside their new CLOUD)
Go SAMBA where that shit is functional and you can set a fully
operational interclient/server with whatever MS brain dead machine
and access all your stuff..
including printers... as long as they never ever allowed remote
printing services work as they should...
The DIGITAL LANDLORDS will never ever play nice..
you can bet that..
But any SAMBA release works out of the box
as long your kernel is provided w/recent CIFS and
other shit evolved from that crap..
Paul
