[Samba] Invalid pass after win98 ug?

[Bradley W. Langhorst]

On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 15:20, Frank DiPrete wrote:
> 
> Hello all
> 
> I've had samba up and running for a while now.
> All was perfect until I "upgraded" my client from win95 to 98.
> 
> Now, the samba server rejects my user password.
> 
> Checked the following:
> 
> *caps lock not on
> *I can log in from smbclient on the server
> *set the password again using smbpasswd
> 
> I'm stumped! This is probably a simple thing but it's got me.
> 

i think its encrypted passwords... (encrypt passwords = yes)
turn that on in samba and you're good to go
(that might break other win95 clients thought)

the other option is to turn off the encrypted passwords in win98
i don't remember how but it's in the howto collection.