Win98 Password Stumbling Block (Resolution)

[Allen Hubble]

For those of you that have had/are having problems getting Win 98 clients to
correctly authenticate, I have identified a stumbling block which I had to
deal with.  Specifically, EnablePlainTextPassword *must* be a DWORD value.
In following the instructions found here,
http://us1.samba.org/listproc/samba/October1998/0321.html and on the
Microtheft web site, I installed the ptxt_on.inf file from the Win 98 CD.
This created a Registry Entry that was binary rather than DWORD.  Using
regedit, manually configure the key as DWORD with a value of 1 for Plain
Text passwords.

Hope this helps someone (as I was left to my own - but I'm not bitter).

... Al Hubble

----Original Message-----
From: 	Allen Hubble [mailto:AHubble at idirect.com]
Sent:	Tuesday, September 28, 1999 8:59 PM
To:	'samba at samba.org'
Subject:	RH6.0 - Samba 2.0.3 - Win98 - With a Twist

Hi All,

Here's my problem, right from when I first set it up, I could connect using
smbclient from the Linux box (localhost)<Great!>.  When I tried from the
Win98 command line, I got the 'Error XX...Bad Password' error.  After
researching things a bit, I was lead to get out tcpdump to see what was
going on.  In the tcpdump output I could see my userid and (to my surprise,)
my workgroup where the password should have been! <Grumble, grumble.  More
research...>

I implemented the EnablePlainTextPassword fix suggested here,
http://us1.samba.org/listproc/samba/October1998/0321.html because the
symptoms sounded the same.  Now when I try it with tcpdump, I see neither my
userid nor my password and I still get the same error.

This only happens when I try to access one of the shares that has some sort
of security on it (i.e. I can connect and browse the tmp share, no problem).

To save bandwidth, my smb.conf file (which has been modified both manually
and using linuxconf) can be found at http://www.hub-tech.com/smb-conf.txt

In thinking about the workgroup-rather-than-password issue, I noted that my
Win98 network config is set with 'Share-level access control' but I can't
see how that is relevant.  Isn't that just for shares that are defined on
the Win98 system?  I'm stumped at this point thus my post.
*********************************************************
Allen Hubble <AHubble at Hub-Tech.com>
Hubble Technology Consulting, Inc.
Progress/UNIX, Mfg/Pro, EDI/EC
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
416-802-5713
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