Authenticaion of NT users to their Unix user space via Samba.
Lars Kneschke
lk at netuse.de
Mon Feb 21 14:41:10 GMT 2000
Paul Kenneth Egell-Johnsen wrote:
>
> I'm sorry to burst in this door, I've read the faq, I've searched the
> samba.org site, and I don't know what to do, even now.
>
> The problem is this, I have a network with SGI computers whoose shared
> drives some NT workstations are accessing. This have worked fine until
> now. After acquiring two new NT workstations, it seems that I can't get
> them to access the shared drives.
>
> As far as I can ascertain it is because of the password/username
> supplied by the new (ie. Service Pack 4) versions of the OS is
> encrypted, while the old way was unencrypted. Where do I change this to
> encryptet (or rather unencrypted) on the NT box? I can't find any
> answers pertaining to that. But a couple of unanswered questions to that
> same effect, seems to lurk in the archives.
This is the registry patch to enable plainpasswords.
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Lars Kneschke
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REGEDIT4
;Contributor: Tim Small (tim.small at virgin.net)
;Updated: 20 August 1997
;Status: Current
;
;Subject: Registry file to enable plain text passwords in NT4-SP3 and later
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters]
"EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001
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