NET PASSWORD from Win95

Gerald W. Carter
Sat, 11 Oct 1997 15:04:17 -0000

> > On Fri, 10 Oct 1997 02:48:16 +1000, you wrote:
> > >I was wondering if anyone out there has been able to get the
command:
> > >
> > >	NET PASSWORD \\sambaserver
> > >
> > >to work from within Windows95 talking to a Samba server?
> >
> Been there, done that about a zillion times, and I never seemed to get the
> right settings.  For program, we're using the standard Linux passwd,
and
> for chat (hmm, trying to remember as I don't have the box here to look
at)
> something _similiar_ to the default, but not exactly.  I tried to match it
> up to what the passwd program does for any normal user, but no matter what
> happens the command always fails.  Perhaps I'll bump up the debug
output
> and see if anything significant is in the log files.
>

[Someone please correct if I am wrong...] I don't think this will work
with Windows 95 clients because the password is sent across the wire in
UPPER case letters.  Therefore the original password will most likely
never match.  I am asuming that you UNIX passwords are not all UPPER case
in the first place.

I was interested in the original post so I played around with it on the
client side and verified this ( the upper case password that is ).  Of
course I could be wrong if the password level parameter in smb.conf
applies here as well but I don't see how it could be applied to the new
password.

Any ideas?


j-
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                          Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University
jerry@eng.auburn.edu             http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw

       "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home."
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