The change I did to Win2000 was the change [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Para meters\EnablePlainTextPassword:dword:00000001
While the swat interface might work, I am trying to make it so that users do not know I am switching to a samba file server. The change above was not required on my linux box, but was required on my sun server. I was rather puzzed by this difference. I tried compiling the sun version as close to the redhat config as possible. Brett "Bradley W. Langhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 1044638712.27619.125.camel@unheq1">news:1044638712.27619.125.camel@unheq1... > On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 11:06, Brett wrote: > > I had the server set to encrypt passwords, and that allowed the machine to > > log in, but the user's could not change their passwords. > So the user can log in? (machines also "log in" but i think you're > referring to users) > How did the users try to change their passwords? > There is a nice web page (part of swat) that allows them to do that. > > > When I added the > > registry entry in the source distribtion, the situation got worse. The > > computer log's in, but then gives an error message that it could not get the > > roaming profile and all the disk mounts hae failed for password problems. > > The type of system is a Windows 2000 client, although I have also been > > trying with a WindowsXP client. > what registry entry are you referring to? > > brad > -- > Bradley W. Langhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
