Smb passwords > 8 chars

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Olaf Flebbe wrote:

> A samba server with encrypted paawords on Solaris8 does not correctly
> handle passwords containing more than eight characters. A local
> smbclient can correctly handle this situation, but NT 4.0 and W2K cannot
> connect to a share protected with encrypted password 9 chars long. The
> newly ported LynxOS Server shows the same problem ;-)
> 

Make sure REPLACE_GETPASS is defined in config.h.  I tested this on 
Solaris 8 prior to release and everything was working fine.




cheers, jerry
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