[Samba] Samba Setup

[John H Terpstra]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Kenny Mann wrote:

> You need to disable encrpyted passwords.
> The newer version of samba should allow encrypted passwords.
> There is a registry setting that you must create to allow plain text
> passwords.
> It is highly recommended that you do now use plaintext passwords for
> obvious security reasons.

Kenny,

Please explain the above statement. I'd like to know why plain text
passwords ARE more secure and I am sure others on this list would like to
know also.

- John T.


>
> Did you set any encryption settings in your smb.conf file?
> What version of Samba are you running?
>
> If, for some reason, you can't get that going....
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanworkstation\p
> arameters
>
> Create a dword called "enableplaintextpassword"
> Give it a value of 1.
> 1=on
> 0=off
>
> --Kenny Mann
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Mashore [mailto:jmashore at adsnm.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:27 AM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: [Samba] Samba Setup
> >
> >
> > I'm setting up Samba on My Solaris box and whenever I try to
> > access it from My win2000 machine I get the following error
> >
> > "The account is not authorized to log in from this station"
> >
> > What does this mean ?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Jim Mashore
> >
> >
> >
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John H Terpstra
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