Re: Samba and Windows plain text passwords

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From: Station3
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You can also get the registry hack from c:\windows\networks.txt :)
"Jesta Peabody" <jesta@transtemporal.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> If anyone is a Samba newbie like me, and struggled to view/use shares on
> a Samba enabled box, and had decided to try to hack the windows registry
> to enable the plain text passwords, and couldn't find the appropriate
> key, I found this page with some inf files to enable the plain text
> passwords in windows:
>
> http://www.msu.edu/user/cic/downloads/cleartxt
>
> I used the ME file and restarted and tah-dah it worked (obviously you
> need to omit the "encrypt passwords = yes" line from smb.conf, or via
> swat).
>
> Hope this saves some ppl some of the blood and tears that I went through
> trying to get the windows->samba connection working.
>
> Cheers,
> Jesta

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