could someone please advise if there is a certain way to post to the list?
Thanks
----- Original Message -----
From: Lyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'Todd Pfaff' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Lyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 11:50 AM
Subject: RE: [expert] SMB Help Please.
> Todd & all;
>
> I was NOT able to get SAMBA to work with WinNT or Win98 until I enabled
> plain text passwords. This was with the Samba included with LM 6.0. I
> tried encrypted passwords yes and no in the SAMBA config and it just plain
> did not work. WinNT SP3 was when Microsoft changed their password
> encryption and that's why I mentioned SP3. This new password scheme has
> been included in Win95 patches and is now in Win98.
>
> If I am doing something wrong, please give me some constructive answers.
>
> Lyle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Pfaff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 7:55 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Cc: Lyle
> Subject: RE: [expert] SMB Help Please.
>
>
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Lyle wrote:
>
> > I have been playing with SAMBA here with Linux and found that there are
> > known problems<GRIN> with it. Recently Microsoft changed the algorithm
> used
> > to encrypt passwords(WinNT SP3) and SAMBA hasn't caught up with that.
You
> > need to enable plain text passwords on your Windows machines and this
> > problem should go away.
>
> This is misinformation.
>
> First of all, you used "recently" and to refer to "WinNT SP3". Huh?
> SP3 is several years old now. That's not recently, especially in the
> computer industry.
>
> Secondly, samba does work with encrypted passwords and WinNT and any
> service pack (up to and including SP6 in my personal experience).
>
> > See Microsoft technical articles #Q187228 and Q166730 for the registry
> > entries to enable plain text passwords.(which are not really plain text,
> but
> > that's another subject)
>
> Don't enable plain text passwords unless you really need to. Read the
> samba documentation to learn when it may be necessary to enable plain text
> passwords.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sean Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 2:26 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [expert] SMB Help Please.
> >
> >
> > Here's the deal, I'm able to use gnomba to see the NT computer on the NT
> > network that I want to mount. I've got user access to this computer. But
> > when I give it my username and password, it refuses to let me in. So I
> > thought this might be a problem with gnomba and decided to use the
> smbmount
> > command. It gave back a positive name query response from the correct NT
> box
> >
> > and then asked for a password. When I entered in the correct password
for
> my
> >
> > username I got the following response back:
> > session setup failed : ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (ACCESS denied.)
> > smbmount: login failed
> > Could not umount /mnt/share: Device or resource busy
> > smbmount: exit
> >
> > Now /mnt/share is the directory I set up to mount the share directory
from
>
> > the NT box. I'm guessing because of the previous errors the smbumount
> > command could not dismount this drive right away. Are my acces problems
> due
> > to my SAMBA or to the NT network I'm connected to?
> > I'm running Mandrake 6.1 on a 133 Mhz pentium DELL computer. Any Ideas?
> > Please don't say contact the SAMBA people because I am never able to get
> an
> > answer from them.
> > Thanx,
> > SA
> >
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