On Thursday 09 June 2005 10:25, Michael J. Wetmore wrote: > This may be because you have 'encrypt passwords = no' in your smb.conf. > If so, a registry patch that was applied to the W2000 machines needs to > be applied to the XP machines. The patch allows the machines to log on > with plain text passwords. > > The patch for W2000 is OK for XP. > > This has all kind of implications. To see these and alternatives go to > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=samba+plain+password&btnG=Google+Se > arch > > Michael Wetmore > > From: Douglas Vechinski > Subject: [Samba] Connection to Samba works for Win2k but not XP > > At work I have a Linux box running Mandrake 8.1 and Samba 2.2.1a. I
You need to update to Samba-3.0.14a. - John T. > have the Samba server setup to request login in name and passwords. > Several people have been connecting to this machine for the past several > years via Windows 2000 with no problem. Recently some of us have > finally been upgraded to Windows XP. When I no try connecting to the > Samba server, I get a login in prompt as usual. However, typing in my > username and samba password does not let me log in. Is there a setting > on XP that needs to be made or a problem with the samba server being "so > old". -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
