Re: [PLUG] speaking of passwords (Samba)

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Stephen Gran wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 08:57:32AM -0400, Art Alexion said:
>  
>
> > Suddenly, the win98 machine on the samba network can't log onto the 
> > Linux shares.  It refuses to accept the password.  Another Win95 machine 
> > has no problem with the same password on the same shares.  Ideas?
> >    
>
> Up the debugging on samba to see if it gives you any clues.  Do you have
> any recent windows versions on the network, or just 95 and 98?  I ask
> because windows 95 and unpatched 98 machines send their password in the
> clear, and patched 98 and later windows machines encrypt them.  Samba has
> to be told whether the passwords are encrypted.  Just something to toss
> in - it may just be a corrupt pwd file on the 98 machine.
>  
Surprisingly samba (normally) works fine even though the 98 machine is 
using encrypted passwords and the 95 machine is not.

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