Summary of "encrypted and cleartext password in the same time"
issue.
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at pcug.org.au
Sat Jan 12 17:42:03 GMT 2002
Martin Rusko wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> this is an attempt to cover all possibilities, how to access samba server with
> clients sending cleartext password (CP clients) (original Win95, WinNT until
> SP3) and clients sending encrypted password (EP clients) (Win98, Win2k,
> ....) at the same time. Any feedback, comments, questions or improvements
> are very welcome. :-)
All the listed clients will send an encrypted password if 'encrypt
passwords = yes'.
The 'CP' clients you list are only different in that they will *permit*
a security downgrade if the server requests it. Later clients do not
permit this downgrade without a registry hack (for security reasons).
Andrew Bartlett
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