On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > For anyone who has upgraded to or past samba-3.2.0, Win9x and WinME > clients stopped working. The reason they stopped working is that newer > versions of Samba turn lanman authentication and plaintext > authentication off by default. Three lines added to smb.conf and > redoing the passwords fixes the problem, but I wish a better solution > was offered. Win9x and WinMe are capable of accepting third party > networking software. Why not implement NT style passwords on these > older versions of Windows that some people are stuck with for > whatever reason? To what degree is support of lanman style passwords > needed for Win9x and WinME clients? Do individual Win9x apps expect > lanman style passwords, or is this abstracted properly? A free > replacement Microsoft style networking stack for Win9x that does > NT style passwords and hashing would be great. >
I think theres more to worry about while running Win9x or WinME than porting new versions of SMB to them, along with all the required security modules... -- Brent Jones [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
