On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 16:20, TomÃs PolÃk wrote: > Hello, > W95 by default uses plain text password instead of W98 > and newest which uses encrypted passwords by default.
This is incorrect. Win95 and Win98 support exactly the same encrypted scheme and use it by preference and default. > Samba allows to use only one of these at a time as configured > by encrypt passwords directive. So all your Samba client > machines must use same type of passwords. > Two ways to do: > - set W2K to use plain text passwords (wrong way) > - set W95 to use ecrypted password (normal solution) There is nothing that needs to be done to the client to make any Microsoft client use encrypted passwords. > >From O'Relly Using Samba book: > In Samba distribution you can find /doc/Registry with > platform-specific .reg files, that changes your Windows > registry settings to use plain passwords. You can use that > to see which reistry entry in W95 is used for password > mode and change that by hand to preffered value. After Win95B, *plaintext* password support was disabled, and could only be re-enabled by a registry key. Plaintext passwords are useless, for reasons of network security, untested code and the constant series of password pop-ups they generate. > > lanman auth = no This is the cause of the inability to connect from Win95/98 machines. These clients only support Lanman authentication, and so have been locked out of this server. Andrew Bartlett
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