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Article #2Re: Samba and Windows plain text passwords
From: George Hauff
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:27
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:27
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I had a problem with SAMBA it was because there wasn't NETBIOS installed in the windows machine. Maybe that will help "Station3" <xterm2@xterm1.columbus.rr.com> wrote in message news:75j08.34858$zk4.4887914@typhoon.columbus.rr.com... > You can also get the registry hack from c:\windows\networks.txt :) > "Jesta Peabody" <jesta@transtemporal.com> wrote in message > news:MPG.169dd6bad3930ba0989682@news.iprimus.com.au... > > 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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