TNG works with Win2k, fails with Win98

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:

> "Lonnie J. Borntreger" <lonnie at borntreger.com> writes:
> 
> > Finally.  I'm no longer the only one talking about this problem.
> > 
> > STATUS: Samba TNG does not support Win9x authentication.  I ONLY
> > works for users on NT or 2000.
> 
> Yes.  I am not sure everyone believe this, since there are so many
> ways you can botch your configuration...  I have already received a
> couple of Emails suggesting that this is my problem.
> 
> But I have two machines, side-by-side, and the same login which works
> on Win2k fails on Win98.  And I have been authenticating Win98
> machines against earlier Samba versions (with "encrypt passwords =
> yes") for years.  So I am pretty sure this really is a problem with
> TNG.
> 
> > SOLUTION: Somebody with access to an NT PDC based domain needs to do
> > a netmon trace of a successful domain login and a successful GETDC
> > request from a Win9x machine and send it to Luke Leighton
> > (lkcl at samba.org).  Once he has that, he will fix the implementation.
> 
> Why is this necessary?  I can authenticate 98 against Samba 2.0.x just
> fine; why is a netmon trace of *that* process not sufficient?  Or, why

  i specifically need to know EXACTLY what the difference between a win9x
UDP 138 request and an nt one (GETDC and SAMQUERY) _and_ i need to know
what the responses are --- *from an nt server*.

samba is not sufficient for this task.