Cannot map network drive from NT

[Greg Dickie]

I explained that in a separate (private) email so calm down. As far as
"breaking security" lets count how many common protocols send cleartext
passwords. Here's a clue - lots.


Greg


On 22-Mar-00 tschweikle at FIDUCIA.de wrote:
> 
> greg at discreet.com:
> 
>> You need to turn off encrypted passwords on NT. There is a .reg
>> file in the distribution for that.
> 
> Damn bogus tips! Turn on encripted passwords in smb.conf instead.
> The other way you'll break security in your own network!
> 
> Have a look at the SMB-HOWTO how to do this (ist's written for
> Linux, but it is the same with IRIX).
> 
> 
>> On 16-Mar-00 Norea Nuon wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We have used Samba 2.0.5a on SGI IRIX 6.5.4. It works well from
>>> Windows95/98 clients and WinDD 3.51. We just install NT 4.0 workstation
>>> (service pack5) and not able to map network drive on IRIX. Error
>>> message: account not authorized.
>>>
>>> I check on the server (/usr/local/samba/var/log.smb), Samba just close
>>> the connection and exit, after "Selected protocol NT LM 0.12" ...
>>>
>>> Can someone enlighten me please ? Do I need another version of Samba to
>>> be able to work with NT 4.0 or I did something wrong ?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Norea Nuon,
>>> norea.nuon at videotron.ca
> 
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> ThomasFrom tschweikle at FIDUCIA.de Tue Mar 21 13:02:10 2000
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> Subject: Re: Password Change from NT client
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> hanak at IRIS.osu.cz:
> 
>> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 shepherd at orgx.co.nz wrote:
>>
>>> I have samba 2.0.6 installed and network logins are working fine.
> However
>>> the users would like to change their passwords from the NT client by
> the
>>> usual methods.  When they try they get something like "the username
> and/or
>>> password is incorrect".  Can this be done or does it effectively have
> to
>>> be done administratively via smbpasswd?
>>
>> Every user can change their password by standard method in NT. Problem
> may
>> be in unix passwd sync turned on. Caused by cracklib in PAM (control
> over
>> "right" passwd) or in passwd chat.
>>
>> If you need to sync samba and unix passwords, try turn on debug for
>> passwd chat and look to logs.
> 
> Or, as a merely good solution use pam_smb to authenticate your unix users.
> 
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> Hello,
> 
> Just to check if the mailing list server is working. I've not had any email
> from samba-ntdom for about 24 hours.
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> Tom.
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Greg Dickie
Just A Guy
greg at discreet.com