[Samba] UNIX passwords
Erik Soderquist
esoderquist at mcstamp.com
Thu Jun 5 17:44:00 GMT 2003
thanks. problem solved
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Bombard [mailto:ronb at nativetextiles.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 13:35
To: Erik Soderquist
Subject: RE: [Samba] UNIX passwords
I use my unix /etc/passwd file for auth. I've never used smbpasswd.
I just set security = user, and encrypt pass = no.
On the win2k machines, you have to enable sending clear passwd to
smb clients. easy.
> i don't need encryption. what parts of win2k support would cause a
> problem, and can those part of win2k be changed/disabled?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Novosielski [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 15:18
> To: Samba List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [Samba] UNIX passwords
>
>
> If you don't need encryption (or Win2k support), that'll work just
fine.
> If you do need encryption or Win2k support, you are SOL as they say.
>
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> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Erik Soderquist wrote:
>
> > I have a rather unique setup. I would like to simply use the
existing
> > UNIX /etc/passwd file for my authentication without having an
> smbpasswd
> > file existing. does anyone know how to do this?
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