Windows 95 connection problem.

Kourosh Ghassemieh kourosh at loop.com
Tue Dec 11 13:32:02 GMT 2001


Rob,

Win95 only does plain text passwords out of the box.  There is a
Microsoft Knowledge base article related to that and according to
it there are two updates that you need to apply.  Here's the article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q165403

Regards.

At 09:16 PM 12/11/2001 +0000, you wrote:

>I'm hoping someone can help me with a problem that's driving me potty!
>
>I have a network at home of various flavour of Wind*ws and a Mandrake 8.1
>Linux box. After much trial and error, I have set the sytem up so I can log
>on to the network from WIn NT, Win 2k, Win 98 - but, no matter what I try, I
>cannot get a Win 95 machine to connect. I have installed the vrdrupd.exe file
>on the Win 95 machine as that seemed to promise my success, but still no joy.
>
>I can see the homes and share directory I set up, but I just keep getting
>told I'm entering an incorrect password. I'm using exactly the same
>techniques on my Linux box to set up accounts for all types of Wind*ws
>machines - but the password is still, apparently, invalid when I  enter it on
>the 95 machine.
>
>Is it something to do with encrypted passwords?
>
>I have:
>
>  encrypt passwords = yes
>
>in my smb.conf files.
>
>Please remember, it's *only* Win 95 machines I can't connect (I have tried
>two).
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Rob.
>
>
>
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