What patch are you referering to. Also the samba 2.2.7a release specifies a change of requiresignoreseal=0. What is that for and is that really needed.
Thanks, Brett P.S. I had problems when I tried to change the passwords to unencrypted and am using the server with encrypted passwords. "Don Zajic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 000001c2d821$965af920$6701a8c0@hawaii">news:000001c2d821$965af920$6701a8c0@hawaii... > I must disagree with you. Samba does handle encrypted passwords. I > have been using that feature for at least two years if not longer. I > have had WinNT, Win2K and WinXP clients authenticated by my samba server > for a long time. > > The Win2K systems are pretty straight forward, the WinXP clients do need > a patch to the security, but that is easy to apply. > > Don Zajic > Samba 2.2.7a (Domain Controller) > Clients, WinNT, Win2K and WinXP > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Kees Damen > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Samba] Phasing out windows > > > Hi, > > If you have Windows 2000 or XP clients than you are > getting into troubles as these clients work better > if you use "encrypted passwords". Samba can't process > an encrypted password and hands it over to a Windows 2000 server for > verification. If you don't have them any more than you must patch the > registry in every client to give a non encrypted password to the Samba > server. And the > clients, Win 2k & XP, doesn't like that and give a login > screen every time it wants to connect to a Samba share. > If you have Win 98 clients than you don't have these > problems. > > > The company I ma working for us willing to phase out it's windows > > servers. We are using Windows 2000 servers for file and print sharing. > > > we also have > > an exchange server for our intra & external mails. > > Best regards, Kees > -- > 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 > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba