Windows98 & SMB
Charlie Brady
cbrady at ind.tansu.com.au
Sat Jul 4 07:07:04 GMT 1998
On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Kevin Fonda wrote:
> If you look on the Win98 CD in the directory '/tools/mtsutil/' you should
> find the files: 'ptxt_on.inf' and 'ptxt_off.inf' here is a clip from the
> mtsutil.txt file in that directory:
>
> ===============================================================
> PTXT_ON.INF - SENDS PLAIN-TEXT PASSWORDS TO YOUR NETWORK SERVER
> ===============================================================
>
> For security reasons, Windows 98 will not allow you to send plain-
> text passwords. The password is encrypted by default. However,
> Samba servers require plain-text passwords, so you will not be able
^^^^^^^
> to connect to Samba servers unless you change a Registry entry to
> enable plain-text passwords.
So, M$ misrepresents samba once again.
Sigh...
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