[Samba] Re: Phasing out windows

[Brett]

What patch are you referering to.  Also the samba 2.2.7a release specifies a
change of requiresignoreseal=0.  What is that for and is that really needed.

Thanks,
Brett

P.S.  I had problems when I tried to change the passwords to unencrypted and
am using the server with encrypted passwords.

"Don Zajic" <donald.zajic at verizon.net> wrote in message
news:000001c2d821$965af920$6701a8c0 at hawaii...
> 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
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