Windows 2000 logon problems - how to set plain text passwords?
Christian Barth
barth at cck.uni-kl.de
Mon Jan 28 02:05:23 GMT 2002
The registry-Key is in the docu-directory of the samba source. And
here it is:
REGEDIT4
;Contributor: Herb Lewis (herb at sgi.com)
;Updated: 16 July 1999
;Status: Current
;
;Subject: Registry file to enable plain text passwords in
Windows 2000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkStatio
n\Parameters]
"EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001
Christian
> I'm sorry if this is a common question, but I can't find the answer in
> the archives.
>
> I recently installed Samba 2.2.1 on my Mandrake 8.1 box and can use it
> fine with my Win98 machine, although I did have to edit the registry to
> enable plain text passwords to get it working.
>
> I have now acquired a notebook with Win2000, and while this will show
> the Samba share in Windows Explorer, attempts to connect to it return
> the 'incorrect user or password' dialogue.
>
> I'm not that familiar with Win2000 and the registry is obviously
> somewhat different to Win98. I've seen a post on a key to edit,
> (rdr/parameters) but it's not present on this machine.
>
> Should I just create this key or what?
>
> Is there a little howto or faq somewhere that shows how to do this in
> Win2000 that I can refer to?
>
> Any pointers appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Peter Rose
> London UK
> "I don't like your fashion business mister"
> - Leonard Cohen / First We Take Manhattan
>
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