Re: [Sheflug] Samba & win95

[Matthew John Palmer <nospam [at] uow.edu.au>]

On Thu, 11 May 2000, Andrew Basterfield wrote:

> OK so I read some of the manual, got bored and then played Quake for a bit.

Good recovery.  The O'Reilly's Using Samba book is much better than the docs
that come with Samba - sorry, but the book is sooo easy to read.

> > I haven't played with NT and samba, but the problem might lie in
> > the passwords that each is using. I believe that some versions of NT use
> > encrypted passwords, whereas others use plaintext. Win95 uses plaintext
> > as far as I can remember. If this is the case, you can probably look at
> > the samba logs and see authentication errors from the Win95 server (as
> > samba now comes with encryption as a default, methinks...).
> 
> I edited the registry to disable encrypted passwords rather than messing
> aroung generating encrypted password lists on the linux side..

I would say, therefore, that if you can access it from the NT box but not
from the 95 box then 95 is still using the encrypted passwords.  Yep, some
versions of 95 use the encrypted passwords by default.  I put something in
my ManLUG talk on it
(http://ieee.uow.edu.au/~mjp16/manlug-netlinux/notes.html - look for the bit
on Samba - encrypted passwords) which I know gives the bit in the 95
registry you've got to hack with to make it go.


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