newbie question.. please help
Gerald Carter
gcarter at valinux.com
Wed Jan 24 18:08:09 GMT 2001
> > From: John Kuhn [SMTP:webmaster at mickalich.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 7:21 AM
> > To: samba at us5.samba.org
> > Subject: newbie question.. please help
> >
> > I have a samba file server running on redhat 6.2
> > and everything works great besides a daily annoyance.
> > every NT and 2000 client that connects to it must
> > enter there share password everytime they connect.
> > the 98/95 clients always remember the password and
> > login automaticlly. can someone tell me what the
> > problem is or point me in the right direction to
> > fix it? I just want the NT based computer to not have
> > to enter there password everytime..
NT prompts for a password when the remote SMB server does not
support password encryption. Enable encryption and you
should be ok (assuming all the passwords are the same).
Also, as far as I know, NT does not support the Win9x
style *.pwl files (thankfully).
Cheers, jerry
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