[lug] sambas up

[John Hernandez]

It's probably a problem with encrypted passwords.  Read the man page for smbpasswd and ENCRYPTION.txt from the source tarball.

Here's what Winson Belle said about this:

Configuring SAMBA to receive encrypted passwords from WinNT or Win2K depends 
on the version of SAMBA you have. Later versions of SAMBA use a local 
'smbpasswd' file to authenticate encrypted passwords. 

However, to disable encrypted passwords in Win2K do the following: 

In Admin Tools, click 'Local Security Policy' 

On the 'Security Setting' folder select 'Local Policies' then select 
'Security Options'. 

Here you can double click 'Send unencrypted passwords to third-party SMB 
Servers'. Enable the option. 

This maintains encrypted passwords to Windows based systems, whilst sending 
unencrypted to SAMBA. However, it might be better to install a later version 
of SAMBA that accepts encrypted passwords to strengthen network security. 

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Cheers,
John

Jason Davis wrote:
> 
> so at my work all win98 clients can see and access my samba box but not the win2ks...
> any suggestions
> 
> Jason Davis
> jd_480 at hotmail.com
> 
>

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