Hi,
Thanks for your info. I am passing it on to the official mailing list:
samba@samba.anu.edu.au for information and also putting it aside for inclusion
in the FAQ.
> Hi Samba Team. Great job.
>This is not a bug, but didn't find any other address to reach you.
>Sorry if I am bothering you.
>
>I just wanted to give you more information then is stated in the man
>pages of smb.conf for the "password level" where you give an
example
>of the different combinations with "FRED".
>
>If you are interested here are the exact numbers of the password
>combinations for the different password level. (I can send you my
>calculations if you want to). Those numbers are calculated for a password
>length of 8 characters. If the password is shorter it will have even less
>possible combinations.
>
> ADDED TOTAL
>LEVEL COMBINATIONS COMBINATIONS
> 0 2 2
> 1 8 10
> 2 28 38
> 3 56 94
> 4 70 164
> 5 56 220
> 6 28 248
> 7 8 256
>
>I am now using a password level of 7 to make sure that no password will be
>rejected. I did not experience time out problems so far. It is just 256
>combinations maximum but all the time it will be much less than that.
>
>I am using Samba 1.9.17 with Solaris 2.5.1 on a Sparc20 with 2 CPUs.
>
>===================================================================>, @
_{)_ ,Gaetan Boudreau, ing/P.Eng.
> \/( )\/\/\ /\/ Administrateur de reseau/Network Administrator
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>Cheers,
John H Terpstra - Samba-Team
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