[Samba] passwd encryption

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at pcug.org.au
Tue May 7 04:46:05 GMT 2002


"John J. Boyer" wrote:
> 
> Mohamed,
> When you are connecting to Windows machines you should have
> Encrypt Passwords = yes
> in your smb.conf file

Samba will always encrypt passwords if the server supports it.  The
'encrypt passwords' option only applies to smbd - changing if it will
offer encrypted password support.

Andrew Bartlett

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