Samba Question

[Jeff Mings]

Just a note:  you'll likely need to use the smbpasswd utility to 
generate encrypted smb-usable passwords for each user accessing your 
Samba shares.

-Jeff Mings


yuser wrote:

>>I can browse and access all the machines and shares on them
>>
>>from  my samba server except the NT machine which I can browse but can't
>
>>access any of the shares from.   Is there a setting in the smb.conf to fix
>>this?  I can access the NT share from other 95 and 98 machines.  Could use
>>all ideas.
>>
>
>For NT and above to connect to a Samba server with user level security
>(security = user) enabled you need to configure Samba to use encryted
>passwords (encrypt passwords = Yes).  There are ways around it by
>modifing the registry of each client machine but its not hard to
>configure Samba to except encrypted passwords.  
>
>
>More info:
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q166730
>http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ITS/Topic/LocalNet/LoPCsmb_01/#PlainText
>http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smbpasswd.5.html
>http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/textdocs/ENCRYPTION.txt
>http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/textdocs/WinNT.txt 
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