problems with smbpasswd (joining a SAMBA-Domain)

[Gerald Carter]

Ralf Jüngling wrote:
> 
> Is this really necessary? I've good reasons to 
> set 'encrypt passwords = no'. (i.e. the user-database 
> is quite large (about 40.000) and not maintained by
> me...)

To use Samba as a PDC you must enable encrypted paswords.
No way around it.  






Cheers,
jerry
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                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
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