Connecting to SCO Openserver with Windows 2000 Clients via samba

[Pere Raphael]

Hi all,
 
I hope someone out there can help me.
 
I have a network with SCO Openserver running samba to share files for
access by windows clients. We are currently using windows 95 clients
without any problems.
We want to upgrade to Windows 2000 and XP. We have setup a test machine
and attempted to connect to the Samba shares. We had problems connecting
so we changed the registry setting on the Windows 2000 workstation not
to use encrypted passwords. This allowed us to successfully map to the
Samba shares.
 
The problem I have is that everytime the Windows 2000 workstation is
restarted the mapped drive to the samba share prompts for a password. 
 
What I will ideally like is to have the drives mapped once and not have
to keep specifying the passwords again. I have used the save password
feature when mapping the drive.
 
I have thought of adding encrypt passwords = yes to the smb.conf file,
but do not fully understand the implications of this to the Windows 95
clients which are working at the moment.
 
Any suggestions will help.
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Pere