[Samba] Encryption

[John H Terpstra]

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Howard Huntley Jr. wrote:

> I compiled the source, My understand is that the encryption support has to
> be compiled
> into the binary. If not the "encrypt passwords = Yes" function in smb.conf.
> is meaning less,

No. Encryption support is native to Samba since version 2.0.x.

You need to add your root account to smbpasswd:
	smbpasswd -a root

then do the same for every user who needs to use samba.

- John T.

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John H Terpstra" <jht at samba.org>
> To: "Howard Huntley Jr" <hhuntleyjr at attbi.com>
> Cc: <samba at samba.org>
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Encryption
>
>
> > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Howard Huntley Jr wrote:
> >
> > > I got my Samba compiled and I am seeing the Sun v9 shears in win2k. I
> > > basically have an open samba system. I do not have encryption support
> > > compiled into the binaries. I have looked high and low for the
> > > instructions, Will any one tell me which changes to make in the make
> > > file in order to get the encryption support compiled into the binary?
> > >
> > > When and how or do I need to get the Smbpassword going??
> > >
> > > Why is there so much of the old documentation included with the samba
> > > files and so little regarding getting the encryption going?  The
> > > encryption config should be the default.
> > >
> >
> > Please check the man page for smb.conf - it is up to date. You want to
> > check for "encrypt passwords = Yes" function in smb.conf.
> >
> > - John T.
> > --
> > John H Terpstra
> > Email: jht at samba.org
> >
> >
>
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org