[Samba] URGENT problem: Win-NT4 connecting to Samba

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 03:38, Rainer Hantsch wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I just joined this mailing list because I experience extreme problems in a
> network where I added now a Linux-box. Because I must get this fixed urgently,
> I describe here what I have.
> 
> If somebody has a solution (must be something with the configuration), please
> help. -- THANKS !
> 
> 
> SETUP:
> ======
> Server : SuSE Linux 8.1 with SAMBA 2.2.5
> 
> Clients: Windows-NT4.0 Workstation with SP4/5/6
> 
> PDC    : There is NO DOMAIN, everything is running as a "Workgroup"
>          Network, because it is so small (only 5 PC's).

Both of your problems would be solved by using the Samba server as a
PDC, and enabling encrypted passwords.  

The problem with printing is well-known, and due (as far as I have seen)
to the way printing is done in NT - it doesn't like connecting to a
printer on a new server, not sharing the current passwords.

The problem of the prompt is due to your use of plain-text passwords. 
You seem worried about security, yet why do you allow plain-text
passwords on your network?  MS is also worried about security, and hence
the need to apply registry hacks, and the re-enter the password.

At the very least, move to encrypted passwords, but if you moved to a
'domain' (no matter how trivial) all the servers would automatically
share the password database, and they would not prompt you any more. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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