Win95 Password Change from client

[Sean E. Millichamp]

On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Martin McGannon wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have recently setup Samba-1.9.18p2 on Server running FreeBSD 
> 2.2.5-Stable. In the Makefile we specified the
> -DALLOW_CHANGE_PASSWORD parameter in the OPsys specific section. I 
> have tried to do an NET PASS \\Server_name but in the Workstation Log 
> on the Server the original and changed password are always uppercased 
> and the message given is that the password doen'st match the 
> original. Can anyone help on this? Urgent!!!!!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin McGannon

Hello,

By any chance are you using Win 95 OSR2 when you try to change the
password?  OSR2 (for some reason known only to M$) uppercases all
clear-text passwords it sends.  I haven't tried the password changing
routine yet, but my guess is it also uppercases them.  I think I've heard
that if you are using encrypted passwords then this problem doesn't occur. 

Best,
Sean

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