Problems with DOS Clients

[Glenn Burkhardt]

> From: Mac <dmccann at nibsc.ac.uk>
> To: cartegw at eng.auburn.edu
> Cc: samba at samba.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: Problems with DOS Clients
> Message-ID: <199803061010.KAA22562 at chalsig.nibsc.ac.uk>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> >
> >Are you using the full network redirector on the DOS client?  If not
> >serch the digest archives.  One person reported that he had to use the
> >full network redirector to access samba shares.
> 
> 
> My testing (against samba 1.9.17p-something) showed a rather interestign
> fact.
> 
> I hacked smbd to log the password string as sent by the client, and
> spotted
> that the BASIC redirector in the DOS client always sent 24 character
> passwords.  (24 characters is the length of an encrypted password)
> 
> 
> Basically, irrespective of what the server wants to do, the BASIC
> redirector always uses password encryption.  Test this by following the
> instructions in 'ENCRYPTION.txt' and you'll be able to connect from the
> BASIC Redirector to Samba.
> 
> The FULL Redirector will do both plain-text and encrypted passwords, and
> since Samba defaults to plain-text, the myth has grown up that the FULL
> Redirector is required.
> 
> 
> If anyone knows how to stop the BASIC Redirector always using encrypted
> passwords, then I for one would be delighted.
> 

Very interesting.  I'll have to try this again.  I've been using
encrypted passwords, but haven't been able to use the BASIC redirector.

The FULL redirector is huge; it's an advantage to be able to use the 
much smaller BASIC redirector.

I'd also be interested in hearing about other DOS clients that would
allow connections to Win95 systems and Unix/Samba; the MS Client is
horribly slow, especially for file copies from the client to a server.