samba - Mar 1998 - help for windows 98

I'm writing because I had a problem with Samba, while installing it on some
of our computers with Windows 98 (beta 3).

We have an internal network not accessible from the outside, in which we
use the sending in the clear (I.E. not encrypted) of the access passwords
to Samba running on a Sun machine with Unix Solaris OS.

We use unencrypted passwords because Windows 95 doesn't support them, so we
currently have clients with Windows 95 and clients with Windows NT 4.0
(with Service Pack installed), on which we have modified the Registry as:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters
key name: 
EnablePlainTextPassword
value: 
1

Now it seems that Windows 98 won't support (as a default setting) the
unencrypted passwords, so every time we try to connect to Samba the
connection is refused because the password is wrong.

Do you know if it would be possible to edit Windows 98 Registry to overcome
this problem and let it send the passwords in the clear?

Thank you.

Franco Saiu wrote:
> 
> I'm writing because I had a problem with Samba, while installing it on
some
> of our computers with Windows 98 (beta 3).
> 
> We have an internal network not accessible from the outside, in which we
> use the sending in the clear (I.E. not encrypted) of the access passwords
> to Samba running on a Sun machine with Unix Solaris OS.
> 
> We use unencrypted passwords because Windows 95 doesn't support them,
so we
> currently have clients with Windows 95 and clients with Windows NT 4.0
> (with Service Pack installed), on which we have modified the Registry as:
> 
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters
> key name:
> EnablePlainTextPassword
> value:
> 1
> 
> Now it seems that Windows 98 won't support (as a default setting) the
> unencrypted passwords, so every time we try to connect to Samba the
> connection is refused because the password is wrong.
> 
> Do you know if it would be possible to edit Windows 98 Registry to overcome
> this problem and let it send the passwords in the clear?
> 
> Thank you.
Use the same registy setting as for Win95. See the file

docs/Win95_PlainPassword.reg

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