NT PDC and Encryption

[Matthew Keller]

"Gerald W. Carter" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Alex Yu wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > My question is that if I want to use Samba as PDC and use the main
> > /etc/passwd as a login and password file.  All NT and 98 machines must
> > change from encryption password scheme to plain text password scheme.
> > Is it correct?
> >
> 
> For Samba to work as a PDC for NT clients, you **must** enable encrypted
> passwords on the Samba server.  No way around it.

	Actually there is a registry hack you can apply to the clients to force
them to send plaintext, but I don't advise it.

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