problems with windows 2000 server

James W. Beauchamp jbeauchamp at gesinc.com
Tue Feb 20 20:05:05 GMT 2001


Antonio:

I found it under Samba/Docs:

REGEDIT4



;Contributor:   Herb Lewis (herb at sgi.com)

;Updated: 16 July 1999

;Status: Current

;

;Subject: Registry file to enable plain text passwords in Windows 2000



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkStation\Para
meters]

"EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001

HTH,
James

P.S. You should really consider switching to encrypted passwords for
security reasons.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Antonio Giardi" <giardi at unisi.it>
To: "James W. Beauchamp" <jbeauchamp at gesinc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: problems with windows 2000 server


> At 11.14 20/02/2001 -0800, you wrote:
> >Antonio:
> >I'm not quite sure what you mean by editing the registry.  Registry edits
> >are not necessary to us Samba unless you are trying to use plain text
> >passwords (I think this is correct).  First of all, which version of
Samba
> >are you running?  If it is 2.0.7 and is the domain controller, Win2K will
> >not join the domain, it is not supported.  It will serve files fine
though.
> >If you have a Samba PDC then you will need to upgrade to 2.2.0 (still
> >developmental at this point, but many people seem to be using it already
in
> >production environments - beware! :)) to support a Win2K login.
> >
> >Provide more information and others will chime in with help.
> >
> >James
>
> Hello again,
>
> under windows NT4 I use the regedit.exe file to edit this registry
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters]
> "EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001
>
> but under windows 2000 don't exist.
> The problem is in my PC, I should enable the password.
> Where I can enable the plain text password? Because this path
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters]
> don't exist
>
> Thanks so much
>
>
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