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Article #3Re: Samba and Windows plain text passwords
From: Dennis K Grow
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 20:34
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 20:34
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the patches are provided with every samba version: /usr/share/doc/samba-<version>/docs/Registry Jesta Peabody wrote: > 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 -- Dennis K. Grow RedHat 7.2 Kernel: 2.4.13 KDE: 2.2-10 ALSA: 0.5.11 12:30pm up 2:31, 6 users, load average: 0.01, 0.46, 0.69 ------------------------------------------------------------
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