Anyone can susgest a distro with out of the box compatibility with windows xp network n share folders? I tried using ubuntu and variants of it but it seems to always fail.

I would love windows to work with Samba but with the ubuntu 8.04 install everytime i open samba in it ubuntu tells me the sucker crashes. So i gotta first work with that.

I once got Mint 3 to work.. i could see all the files access them etc. But on reboot I can't anymore.... its freaking killing me.

Dude I am done looking. I was looking for nearly ten days for the solution. Am not looking for another 'solution' if someone has a clear cut method just state it. Cuz all those worthless sites assume it naturally works all the damn time and don't have 'if installation fails or samba fails to start' help.