New installation (PR#8373)

[Jeremy Allison]

cknox at citadel.hypercom.com wrote:
> 
> The document goes on to say that you can do some surgery on your NT
> system with regedt32 to allow unencrypte passwords.  I presume this is
> the situation I'm up against right now, as when I try to map my samba
> server to my NT workstation, get a dialog box marked "Enter Network
> Password" that looks something like this:
> 
>         Incorrect password or unknown username for
>            \\SMBSERVER                                    OK
>                                                         Cancel
>         Connect As: ____________________________         Help
>         Password:   ____________________________
> 
> If I have to go around to every NT box in the company and hack the
> registry, I'm not going to be able to use Samba.  Am I missing something?
> Certainly wouldn't be the first time.
> 
> How do I use Samba without compromising security on my server AND
> without modifying the client?

Setup Samba with encrypted passwords (docs/ENCRYPTION.txt).
More secure than plaintext passwords and no client
registry changes needed.

Hope this helps,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.

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