NT Always prompting for User-ID/Password

[Volker Lendecke]

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casteepa at se.bel.alcatel.be (Patrick Van de Casteele) writes:

> When a user connects to a share (e.g. his home-directory, but it also
> happens on other shares), NT will always prompt for a user-id/password
> combination, even when that user-id and password are the same as on
> Unix.

You set 'encrypt passwords = no', and that is the problem. NT does not
store the plain text password you used to log into the workstation. It
stores the hash you will find in smbpasswd. To log into the samba
server it needs plain text.

> Is there a way around this? The only way out seems to be to have the
> PDC/BDC validate the users, but that's something I'd like to avoid if
> possible.

Or encrypted passwords on unix. No other way, sorry.

Volker

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