My LAN is running Samba v1.9.18p10 under RedHat Linux v5.2. Using the SMB services are Win95 and OS/2 clients. It's all running fine. I will soon be adding Win98, though, and I understand that there is a question of password encryption. I'm concerned how the encrypted/plain-text communication of password will affect my existing configuration. If I reconfigure Samba to use encrypted passwords, won't that effectively disabling logging into the shares from Win95 and OS/2? Is there a way to force Win98 to use plain-text passwords? (Security isn't an issue here.) Is there a way to force Win95 and OS/2 to use encrypted passwords? Thanks. *** Steve Snyder ***
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Steve Snyder wrote:> If I reconfigure Samba to use encrypted passwords, won't that effectively > disabling logging into the shares from Win95 and OS/2?I am not sure (have not tried), but I believe clients that do not support encrypted passwords will still connect to Samba without problems. Problems occur with clients which insist on using encrypted passwords.> Is there a way to force Win98 to use plain-text passwords?Yes. In fact, somewhere on the Win98 CD, there is a registry patch (.REG file) that does just that. It is buried under "Resource Kit" or something like that.> Is there a way to force Win95 and OS/2 to use encrypted passwords?I do not believe the OS/2 client supports encrypted passwords at all. I think some (maybe all) versions of Win95 do. See ENCRYPTION.txt in the Samba docs directory for the gory details. :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Scott <bscott@hamptonsys.com> Phone: (603)431-7315 Hampton Systems Group, Inc. Fax : (603)431-0822 http://www.hamptonsys.com DSN : 852-3581 ======================================================================
Steve, On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 02:17:00 +1100, Steve Snyder wrote:>My LAN is running Samba v1.9.18p10 under RedHat Linux v5.2. Using the SMB >services are Win95 and OS/2 clients. It's all running fine.>I will soon be adding Win98, though, and I understand that there is a >question of password encryption. I'm concerned how the >encrypted/plain-text communication of password will affect my existing >configuration.>If I reconfigure Samba to use encrypted passwords, won't that effectively >disabling logging into the shares from Win95 and OS/2?I can definitly state that OS/2 is running wonderful with 1.9.18p10 and "encrypt passwords = yes". It depends only on the correct password in smbpasswd, /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow have no influence.>Is there a way to force Win98 to use plain-text passwords? (Security isn't an >issue here.)You dont't want to do that. :-) Hasta la vista, Robert -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Robert.Dahlem@frankfurt.netsurf.de Radio Bornheim - 2:2461/332@fidonet +49-69-4930830 (ZyX, V34) 2:2461/326@fidonet +49-69-94414444 (ISDN X.75) ---------------------------------------------------------------