NT PDC and Encryption

[Greg Dickie]

The registry hack only works in user space NOT with trust accounts. To have a
michine on the domain you  **must** enable encrypted passwords on the Samba
server.  No way around it.

Greg

On 13-Aug-99 Matthew Keller wrote:
> "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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> 
>           - Matthew Keller -
>        Lead Programmer/Analyst
>   Distributed Computing and Telemedia
> State University of New York at Potsdam
> 
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