Samba-Win200 login/password issue

[Andrew Bartlett]

Ismet Dere wrote:
> 
> I think this question been asked/answered before, but please forgive me for
> this.
> 
> I have Samba server on RH7.2 Linux and Win98/2000 workstations setup.
> 
> both win98/2000 workstations connects to same samba share, Linux(samba
> server) user and Win98/2000 user/passwords are set same and i've updated
> both of win98/2000 workstations registy with win98/win2000_PlainPasswor.reg
> file from samba website.
> 
> When  I login to Win98 it also login to the samba shared folder automaticaly
> and smoothly, but when I login to Win2000 it asks for samba password
> seperate from win2000 login/password, so far i'm not sure why.

I think its part of the MS 'are you really sure you want plaintext'
stuff.  Bascilly MS will always re-prompt, becouse you could be sending
that password off to anyone, and they have been bitten like this before.

I would always run with 'encrypt passwords = yes' and setup an smbpasswd
file, becouse it always works *much* better, and doesn't require client
hacks.

Andrew Bartlett

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