Win2K and Samba

[Keith G. Murphy]

Tim.Brennan at coat.com wrote:
> 
> Has anyone tried using Windows 2000 Professional with Samba?  I'm
> checking it out now, and when I try to connect to a share, I get an
> error message similiar to the one you get with Win98 and NT4 with SP3+
> with encrypted passwords.
> 
> Does anyone know the equivelant registry path to set plain text passwords?  

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There's a question I have whenever this comes up: why not just enable
encryption on the Samba server side?  What have I missed?