Head branch without encrypted passwords
David Krovich
dkrovich at wvu.edu
Sun Jul 11 17:40:42 GMT 1999
You can patch the registry to enable NT 4.0 w/ Service Pack 3
to talk to a plain text server. (Which I have done) Plus, plain text
passwords work fine with NT 4.0 w/ SP3 connecting to 2.0.4b, just not with
the HEAD branch.
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David Krovich
West Virginia University
Manager/Information Systems
Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
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On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Matthew Keller wrote:
> David Krovich wrote:
> >
> > ok, I did a little more debugging. I even loaded a Redhat 6.0 Intel
> > Linux system to make sure it wasn't some weird Solaris or NIS+ thing.
> > The synopsis is, NT 4.0 w/ Service Pack 3 can't connect to HEAD branch
> > unless encrypted passwords are enabled. Windows 98 seems to work fine
> > connecting to the head branch with plain text passwords.
>
> >From ENCRYPTION.TXT that has come with Samba since version 2.0.3 (at
> least).
> "Note that Windows NT 4.0 Service pack 3 changed the default for
> permissible authentication so that plaintext passwords are *never*
> sent over the wire."
>
> --
>
> - Matthew Keller -
> Lead Programmer/Analyst
> Distributed Computing and Telemedia
> State University of New York at Potsdam
>
> Web: http://mattwork.potsdam.edu/
> PGP: http://mattwork.potsdam.edu/crypto/
>
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