Vista - can vista work on business network with various other OS's?

hello,
We're trying vista on our business network.

After reading a few of the previous posts it looks like getting vista to
work correctly on a network is a mess.

I'm having a problem where it doesn't see 2 workgroups.

We're on a network with 1 win2k server and 3 linux servers running
samba. There are also about 75 workstations running winXP.

One of the linux machines is the PDC running samba 3 so I was able to
join vista to the domain. I was surprised I got that far!

all the other pc's work fine using the linux PDC.

Our network is setup with 2 workgroup names.

the vista machine doesn't see any of them! It can see the machines that
are part of the PDC domain but that's it. there are many other machines
as well.

winXP works fine with this setup - it's been this way for years.

Is it possible to get vista to work like winXP in regards to seeing the
network? After reading some previous posts, it looks like we are NOT
going to use vista for a few years until microsoft gets it working
correctly. It's amazing what garbage they put out.



Oskar


ps. a $3200 HP laptop with 3gb of ram running vista - using 882MB of
ram at idle!! damn!!! what a resource pig!

What version Vista?
Vista uses an entirely different memory management system than previous
Windows. It tries to use all the memory available, something called
superfetch, to anticipate what you will need and preloading it into memory.
If needed for something else, it relinqueshes what ever is needed. What is
the good of unused RAM?
--
Paul


"news" wrote:

> hello,
> We're trying vista on our business network.
>
> After reading a few of the previous posts it looks like getting vista to
> work correctly on a network is a mess.
>
> I'm having a problem where it doesn't see 2 workgroups.
>
> We're on a network with 1 win2k server and 3 linux servers running
> samba. There are also about 75 workstations running winXP.
>
> One of the linux machines is the PDC running samba 3 so I was able to
> join vista to the domain. I was surprised I got that far!
>
> all the other pc's work fine using the linux PDC.
>
> Our network is setup with 2 workgroup names.
>
> the vista machine doesn't see any of them! It can see the machines that
> are part of the PDC domain but that's it. there are many other machines
> as well.
>
> winXP works fine with this setup - it's been this way for years.
>
> Is it possible to get vista to work like winXP in regards to seeing the
> network? After reading some previous posts, it looks like we are NOT
> going to use vista for a few years until microsoft gets it working
> correctly. It's amazing what garbage they put out.
>
>
>
> Oskar
>
>
> ps. a $3200 HP laptop with 3gb of ram running vista - using 882MB of
> ram at idle!! damn!!! what a resource pig!
>
>
>

Indeed, there is an incredible waste of resources on vista

I just got a new Dell machine with 4 GB RAM in order to run several virtual
machines on it

First, the VMWare 5.5 is not supported ?? So upgrade , isnt't it yo virtual
PC
Second, the RAM was already wasted. Now, when I'm writng, with only a
messenger opened and a browser (IE 7 of course) ans I have already 1.2 GB
RAM used ?

How come could this be possible?


And what about the real Vista ? Where are the real features ? several year
ago we were talking about new messanging, new graphical interface and new
file system.
On top we were talking about the advanced command line interface.

I found nothing form these on this Business Vista ?

Were all the good intentions went out. And how does the people couls accept
this as a new feature and buy it ?


"PaulB" <PaulB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4F97BA6B-DB34-492B-B4D0-F9CD575C5AAB@microsoft.com...
> What version Vista?
> Vista uses an entirely different memory management system than previous
> Windows. It tries to use all the memory available, something called
> superfetch, to anticipate what you will need and preloading it into
> memory.
> If needed for something else, it relinqueshes what ever is needed. What is
> the good of unused RAM?
> --
> Paul
>
>
> "news" wrote:
>
>> hello,
>> We're trying vista on our business network.
>>
>> After reading a few of the previous posts it looks like getting vista to
>> work correctly on a network is a mess.
>>
>> I'm having a problem where it doesn't see 2 workgroups.
>>
>> We're on a network with 1 win2k server and 3 linux servers running
>> samba. There are also about 75 workstations running winXP.
>>
>> One of the linux machines is the PDC running samba 3 so I was able to
>> join vista to the domain. I was surprised I got that far!
>>
>> all the other pc's work fine using the linux PDC.
>>
>> Our network is setup with 2 workgroup names.
>>
>> the vista machine doesn't see any of them! It can see the machines that
>> are part of the PDC domain but that's it. there are many other machines
>> as well.
>>
>> winXP works fine with this setup - it's been this way for years.
>>
>> Is it possible to get vista to work like winXP in regards to seeing the
>> network? After reading some previous posts, it looks like we are NOT
>> going to use vista for a few years until microsoft gets it working
>> correctly. It's amazing what garbage they put out.
>>
>>
>>
>> Oskar
>>
>>
>> ps. a $3200 HP laptop with 3gb of ram running vista - using 882MB of
>> ram at idle!! damn!!! what a resource pig!
>>
>>
>>

PaulB wrote:
> What version Vista?
> Vista uses an entirely different memory management system than previous
> Windows. It tries to use all the memory available, something called
> superfetch, to anticipate what you will need and preloading it into memory.
> If needed for something else, it relinqueshes what ever is needed. What is
> the good of unused RAM?

business version. unused ram is available for the applications!!
vista (even with 3gb of ram on new top of the line HP laptop) is SLOW.
if it can't see the network like winXP, vista is planned to be erased
from the laptop and winXP installed in it's place.

vista looks like the new version of windows ME. it is a poor excuse for
an OS.