Windows 2000 Beta 3 and Samba

[Richard Sharpe]

At 09:25 AM 1/4/00 +1100, Matthew Geddes wrote:
>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.

While what Matt says below is correct, it can be a hassle to move to
encrypted passwords.

What I found when I was testing all this a while ago now is that you need
to reboot Win 2000 before it takes notice of the plaintext password hack.

>> What should I do?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Ingar
>>
>> --
>
>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


Regards
-------
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