Windows 2000 Beta 3 and Samba

[Matthew Geddes]

Ingar Rune Steinsland wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I cannot connect to my Samba 2.0 fileserver from Windows 2000. Samba
> refuses to accept my username/password.
>
> I had the same problem on Windows98. On W98 I had to set set following
> key in
> the registry:
>
> My
> Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINES\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP
>
> EnablePlainTextPassword=1
>
> But this does not work (as expected) under Windows 2000.
>
> What should I do?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ingar
>
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Hi,

I usually prefer to have 'encrypt passwords = yes' in smb.conf. In my
experience, it's easier to get Linux to be nice to Windows than it is to get
Windows to be nice to Linux. Have a look at encryption.txt and password.txt
in the samba docs. I also believe that Samba (2.05a and 2.0.6 anyway) came
with a .reg file for Windows 2000.

Matt