Samba and Win98 connection

David Bannon D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au
Wed Nov 8 21:56:51 GMT 2000


At 11:58 AM 08/11/2000 +0100, Gunther Piez wrote:
>Dick_FC_WONG at hkma.gov.hk wrote:
>> However, it involves changing the setting in every user's PC.  Could any
>> parameter be modified in server side (Samba) so that the connection
>> between Win98 client and Samba server can be established without client
>> config change.
>try
>  encrypt passwords=yes
>in your smb.conf. you will need a correct smbpasswd file for this to work, 
>and older smb-clients (win95, win3.11) wont be able to connect anymore.

No, I think you will find that w95 and w311 will be quite happy too. 

david
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