Windows 95 Original Passwords

[Richard Sharpe]

At 11:51 PM 6/19/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> 
>> At 11:56 PM 6/19/00 +1000, Chris Tooley wrote:
>> >How do I enable encrypted passwords on the older Win 95 machines then?
>> >I didn't have to install the PlainText registry hack and when a 
>> >do that hack with a DWORD of "0" it doesn't seem to make a 
>> >difference.
>> 
>> You don't have to. If the server supports encrypted passwords, 
>> the client will use them!
>> 
>> The server specifies that it supports encrypted passwords in 
>> the response to the NegProt request.
>
>I am the only one who gets tired of explaining this?  :-)
>I now you've answered it a lot as well.

Yes, I know, but given that Chris Tooley replied with extra info, it is
worth investigating.

So, Chris, can you tell us more.

I think that the only thing you have to do with the very first Win95
release to enable encrypted passwords is to tell Samba to use encrypted
passwords.

Can you send me a tcpdump trace of it failing?


>jerry
>

Regards
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