[Samba] WindowsXP Home and Samba 2.2.3a connection problems

[John Benedetto]

--On Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:25 AM -0600 Apolinaras 'Apollo' Sinkevicius 
<apollo at carmelentertainment.com> wrote:

> My server is running RedHat 7.2 with all the latest patches, Samba is
> also latest 2.2.3a with domain masters set as "yes" and passwords NOT set
> as encrypt, because when I do turn it on, none of the Win98 boxes can log
> on (even when I tried to create non-blank password account). All Win98
> boxes login flawlesly, since all of them use blank passwords/no passwords
> (for now), but now I got 1 XP Home edition box and I am really not
> willing to go and change things on lots of boxes just for this computer.

Are you trying log into the Samba box as a domain, and run a logon batch 
file, or are you just mapping drives? That?s kind of an important 
distinction...

Perhaps your Win98 boxes need the regsitry changed to allow ENcrypted 
passwords.

XP Home edition CANNOT log into a domain (I think), but it *can* map the 
drives from the server... just click the box to reconnect them at reboot. 
You will be unable to ?log into? the server, and you lose the power of the 
logon batch file, but your user *will* be able to acces server resources.

> Here is what I tried:
> I did apply the "signandseal" patch for XP that comes with Samba. I tried
> to log-in. Nothing... I tried to turn on the encrypted passwrods on samba
> and import the user/password data with smbpasswd program. No luck, even
> if I enter the right username and password, it keeps on poping back-up
> asking for username/password info. Any ideas?

How did you ?import? the user password data?  Previous mentions of tools to 
do this always indicated that the users are then disabled in smbpasswd, and 
you have to manually go in and change their passwords (because the Unix & 
NT LanMan password hasing algorithms are different, the import cannot bring 
in the password).

*WHY* use UNencrypted passwords anyway?  What could possibly be the 
benefit?  Of course, using no password/blank password makes me wonder why 
the 98 boxes would be unable to access it after changing to encrypted 
passwords.

- john