Win2000 professional and Samba ...

[Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE]

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> As soon as I try to brows the Samba server, I get a password dialog box,
> but I cannot get any further.  I type in a correct username and password
> pair, but as far as I can see, Win2K drops the connection as soon as it
> gets the NetProt response back.
> 
> Perhaps it objects to the fact that the server is not using encrypted
> passwords?

Did you enable that key?

docs/Win2000_PlainPassword.reg:

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\Parameters]
"EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001

Volker

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