Much done today!

Sanded down all the pieces that will soon be a printer table. Goofily enough, I think applying finish NOW rather than later will actually make the whole thing easier, so one coat of Wipe-On Poly for Hand-Rubbed Beauty is drying on there while I goof off on LJ.

Installed Microsoft Office (ugh) so I could have Word (ugh) so I could continue to work on my resume (double ugh) on my laptop (yay). Did not in fact edit even one character of my resume. I will do almost anything to delay actually working on my resume.

Wrote five sequences of C4 (square dance choreo) in an hour and a half. I think that's a personal record. Finally, finally I'm getting faster at writing interesting material.

Found someone on craigslist giving away a free coffee table, needing only sanding and refinishing. Gee, what a deal! Sent mail inquiring about measurements. It sure would be nice to replace that poor half-plastic Zombie Undead Coffee Table that's disintegrating in the middle of my living room. Free makes it even sweeter.

Windows XP and Samba

I'm having trouble accessing my home directory, which resides on a Linux server running Samba, from my laptop, which is a Windows XP machine.

Details:

• This used to work fine when I was accessing that directory from a machine running Windows NT Server.
• This works for Rob, from his identical Windows XP laptop.
• This works for me *IF* I change my password to 'cjsmith' on both the laptop and the server. (The Linux server, of course, doesn't want to let me use such a stupid password, but I can override that if I'm root.) I am willing (grudgingly) to change my password to work around what is obviously a bug or extremely bad design on somebody's part, but I'm not willing to have a password identical to my username.
• This does NOT work for me if I use the password Rob uses. I have tried about six other passwords, and none of them work either.

Anybody know what to try next?