Windows 95 with SMB Update

Gerald Carter gcarter at valinux.com
Fri Mar 30 15:07:41 GMT 2001


On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 02:49:37 eirvine wrote:
> 
> There was a second edition of Windows 95. It
> defaulted to encrypted passwords.
> If you have the first edition, I think you just
> add a registry entry to get encrypted passwords.

Nope.  All MS operating systems support password 
encryption.  The redirector update made the default behavior to
not send the clear text of the password if the server
did not support password encryption.

And theredirector update existed for with Win95 upgrade,
retail, and OSR2.x.  







Cheers, jerry
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