| Michael F. Robbins on Thu, 20 Jun 2002 02:14:01 -0400 |
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On Thu, 2002-06-20 at 00:45, Sean Finney wrote: > out of curiosity, why did you disable encryption on your windows box? I was under the impression that for Windows networks without a WinNT/2K server to be the domain login manager, encrypted passwords could not be used. This claim seems to be asserted by: http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/Integrating-with-Windows.html However, browsing said site leads me to another interesting finding: ------ The following parameters can be used to work around the issue of Windows 9x client upper casing usernames and password before transmitting them to the SMB server when using clear text authentication. passsword level = integer username level = integer By default Samba will lower case the username before attempting to lookup the user in the database of local system accounts. Because UNIX usernames conventionally only contain lower case character, the username level parameter is rarely even needed. ------ As Alex mentioned, his linux username is "Alex" with an uppercase character. Samba might be choking on this, according to this documentation. Alex, you might want to try making another linux account, with all lowercase letters for the username, and seeing if you make any more progress with that. > if you don't need to not have the encryption, try turning it back on :) > seriously, i think samba may have some... particularities... with > clear passwords... I think not. Again, the site I mentioned above describes exactly three ways to configure encrypted passwords, none of which meet Alex's situation: - Use MS Windows NT as an authentication server - Make Samba a member of an MS Windows NT security domain - Configure Samba as an authentication server (using domain logins) Unless he chooses to set up his linux box as a domain login server, I don't think he'll be able to use encrypted passwords. Michael F. Robbins mike@gamerack.com Attachment:
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