[Samba] Windows XP

[John H Terpstra]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Ronan Waide wrote:

> On November 26, jht at samba.org said:
> >
> > You need to disable "RequiresSignorSeal" in the registry. If you check the
> > Samba source tarball, ~samba/docs/Registry/WinXP_SignOrSeal.reg is the
> > file you need to double-click on in XP to turn off this feature. The other
> > way is to use the Security editor to turn this off.
>
> I've a vague suspicion that this may bite me shortly, but anyway. Is
> this registry fix necessary for the CVS/alpha code, and is it
> documented somewhere other than in the comment at the top of the
> registry file (i.e. what the heck does it do?)

This feature was possible in Win2K but disabled by default, in WinXP it is
enabled by default. It is necessary to turn it off in XP if you want to
connect with NT4 servers also.

SignOrSeal info is available from:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;183859&
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;318266&

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org