Windows98 & SMB

[Charlie Brady]

On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Peter Blake wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> > > ===============================================================
> > > 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...
> 
> Let us be charitable, people. M$ now have multi-user technology that is
> not quite up to RSX11 (1970's), so don't castigate them for being a year 
> or late on their appreciation of samba capabilities.

There is such a thing as *checking* before going into print...

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