[Samba] Samba encrypt passwd

[chimin yen]

Hi,

    I have samba installed on my Linux system 
(Red Hat 7.2), and Windows 98 on another PC 
as a Samba client. Samba works great 
if PlainTextPassword is enabled. However, if 
PlainTextPassword is disabled on Windows client, 
connection to the Samba shares no longer accepted.

    I believe I've done everything in order to make
encrypt passwd working:

 (1) I converted passwd to smbpasswd
  
   cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > smbpasswd

This resulted in a new smbpasswd file:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  4202 May 21 12:06 smbpasswd

 (2) Here is my /etc/samba/smb.conf file

       [global]
             workgroup = MYGROUP
             security = USER
             log file = /var/log/samba-log.%m
             lock dir = /var/lock/samba
             encrypt passwords = Yes
             smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
 
        [homes]
              comment = Home Directory
              read only = No
              create mask = 0750
              browseable = No
  
         [tmp]
              comment = Temporary file space
              path = /tmp
              read only = No

Note that the smb.conf file worked in the
PlainTextPasswd mode before the two parameters 
were added:

             encrypt passwords = Yes
             smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd

 (3) I restarted Samba daemon

             /etc/init.d/smb restart

 (4)  I followed the test steps as outlined in
diagnosis.txt by  Andrew Tridgell

But every attempt to connect to the smb server got
denied:

[root at star samba]# smbclient -L star
added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255
nmask=255.255.255.0
Password:
session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password
- name/password pair in a
Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
[root at star samba]#

 The following transcript may also be of help in
finding what's wrong.

[root at star samba]# smbclient -L star -N
added interface ip=192.168.1.1 bcast=192.168.1.255
nmask=255.255.255.0
Anonymous login successful
Domain=[MYGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.1a]
 
   Sharename      Type      Comment
  ---------      ----      -------
    tmp            Disk      Temporary file space
    IPC$           IPC       IPC Service (Samba
2.2.1a)
    ADMIN$      Disk      IPC Service (Samba 2.2.1a)
 
        Server               Comment
        ---------            -------
        STAR                 Samba 2.2.1a
 
        Workgroup            Master
        ---------            -------
        MYGROUP              STAR
[root at star samba]#


I suspect my Samba binary doesn't acctually support
encrypt passwd, but how can I tell if it is or not?

Thanks in advance.

Chimin Yen















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