[NTLUG:Discuss] Win98 not talking to Linux Box

[Greg Hewett]

I never can remember, so I use tha samba faq a lot!!

http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/FAQ/#32

greg

On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:48:38AM -0500, Juliet Blosser wrote:
> > > When I put my password in it tells me it's no good so I tryed root's
> > > password and that won't work either. What is different in 98 as
> > > far as this goes?
> > 
> > At the last NTLUG meeting about Samba someone said (IIRC) that
> > something about "plaintext passwords" had changed between 95 and
> > 98.  I don't recall what the solution was (I'm not really interested
> > in Windoze so I was only half awake and not listening carefully)...
> > But I'm sure someone will tell you.  Try looking for a Windoze
> > "plaintext passwords" widget on some control panel or other.
> > Whatever it is set to now...flip it!
> 
> Actually, what you'll want to look for is options for 'encrypted
> password' or 'Send password encrypted'.  I'm sure someone will
> tell you exactly where to push this button, but MSWin98 does try
> to send passwords encrypted by default in many more places than
> 95.  What you want to do is get rid of any places where it's 
> sending the password encrypted, since Linux expects it in
> plain text.  Alternatively, you can set up Linux to expect an
> encrypted password, which is more complicated.
> 
> Check the archives on this.
> 
> 
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