On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> just a pretty short and up-to-the-point question: > >> Is it possible to run Samba both for Windows 98SE and Windows 2000 > >> Professional using plaintext passwords? > > > >Plain-text passwords will not work with Domain security. > >When a windows client drops a connection, and then tries to re-connect it, > >the only password it can supply is the encrypted hash. If your Samba > > But if plaintext passwords are used, there is no such hash, and thus, no such > hash can be re-submitted. (I am using security level 'user') However, all > Windows98 copies that I have installed (be it on a laptop or in VMware), if I > put those machines to standby, they loose their TCP/IP connections after some > specific amount of time. (That is, if I turn them on right away again, they > still work just before) If the connections are dropped, Windows just picks them > up again with no problems. Probably with a delay, but in the network where I > want to use both 98/2000, these machines are on all the time.
I think you might have mis-understood me. The Windows workstation drops connections that are idle for some time. The Windows workstation does NOT cache the plain-text password, it caches only the Microsoft LM and NT password hashes. The workstation therefore CAN NOT provide the plain-text password to permit a reconnection to succeed. > > >server does not support encrypted passwords the reconnect will not work. > >At best you will get an error that requires logging out, followed by > >loging on again. At worst you will get a blue sreeen of death. > > > >So, given that background, plain-text passwords kind of work, if you can > >put up with the limitations described. > > So since this is possible: I have read some of the samba docs/* files provided > with my samba-2.2.7a-72.rpm (SuSE), and have (since months) Win98 domain logons > working fine. As I now tried to add a Windows 2000 host, I don't quite get over > these domain registrations (host$) and stuff. > So far I have added a user aero$ (machine name) as described in the docs, but > Win2000 still refuses to join a domain (though it successfully joins a > workgroup). (The registry entries are already modified to use plaintext pws.) > Anything else I could try? Windows 98 does not have the capability to particpate in Domain security protocols. But has the same problem, it too does NOT cache the plain-text password even when the plain-text registry settings have been re-enabled. Please document the steps you are taking to join the Windows 2000 client to the Domain. Also, please email me your smb.conf file so I can try to assist in getting this working. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
