[Samba] Phasing out windows

[Owens, Bob]

I agree with Don,

[global]

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

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Zajic [mailto:donald.zajic at verizon.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 8:17 AM
To: 'Kees Damen'; samba at lists.samba.org; pondiboy at hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [Samba] Phasing out windows


I must disagree with you.  Samba does handle encrypted passwords.  I
have been using that feature for at least two years if not longer.  I
have had WinNT, Win2K and WinXP clients authenticated by my samba server
for a long time.

The Win2K systems are pretty straight forward, the WinXP clients do need
a patch to the security, but that is easy to apply.

Don Zajic
Samba 2.2.7a (Domain Controller)
Clients, WinNT, Win2K and WinXP

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces+donald.zajic=verizon.net at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-bounces+donald.zajic=verizon.net at lists.samba.org] On
Behalf Of Kees Damen
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:28 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org; pondiboy at hotmail.com
Subject: Re: [Samba] Phasing out windows


Hi, 

If you have Windows 2000 or XP clients than you are 
getting into troubles as these clients work better
if you use "encrypted passwords". Samba can't process
an encrypted password and hands it over to a Windows 2000 server for
verification. If you don't have them any more than you must patch the
registry in every client to give a non encrypted password to the Samba
server. And the 
clients, Win 2k & XP, doesn't like that and give a login
screen every time it wants to connect to a Samba share. 
If you have Win 98 clients than you don't have these
problems.

> The company I ma working for us willing to phase out it's windows 
> servers. We are using Windows 2000 servers for file and print sharing.

> we also have
> an exchange server for our intra & external mails.

Best regards, Kees
-- 
To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba


-- 
To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba