[Samba] Windows 98 cannot connect to Samba 3.6.23-45el6 after upgrade from 3.0.33-3.41.el5

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 15:49 -0500, Justin Cantrell via samba wrote:
> Solved! That was painful.
> First, Samba 3.6.23-45el6 on CentOS6 doesn't start nmbd when samba 
> starts. Those are different services now.
> Make sure that's enabled and stars.
> Also, add to the smb.conf
>      lanman auth = yes
>      client lanman auth = yes
>      client ntlmv2 auth = no    ;client lanman auth son't work without 
> this. not sure why.
> 
> Restart samba and you must use smbpasswd -a to the account again or it 
> won't accept the password.
> 
> That was convoluted, but I hope it helps someone (ie: future me when I 
> break this again).

Ahh, yes.  This is because we don't want to store the LM hash (very
weak) if we don't need to.

Andrew Bartlett

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