Zhou Senqiang wrote:
>>Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:06:35 -0400
>>From: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
>>To: <samba@samba.org>
>>Subject: Re: cannot access the homes directory
>>Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990922100635.00e30700@mail.pacificnet.net>
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>>If it's later Win95 dribbleware you need to encrypt passwords:
>>encrypt passwords = Yes
> I add this clause into the "homes" section. But still cannot
work.
>>There's also a Win registry tweak to turn off encryption on the
client
>>side, but that's more difficult and risky.
>>Steve Litt
>At 11:01 PM 09/22/1999 +1000, Zhou Senqiang wrote:
>>I installed samba 2.0.3 on linux 2.2.5. I set up a "homes"
section in
the>>smb.conf. I can see the homes directory through win95 client. when I
want>>to enter, there is a pop menu asking to input the passwd. But it
doesn't>>require input user name. I input several users' passwd and failed.
Then I
add>>user list in smb.conf, like "username=XXX,YYY". Still cannot
enter. How
to>>solve it? Thanks a lot. Following is a paragraph in my smb.conf:
>> [global]
>> workgroup = lab
>> guest account = nobody
>> keep alive = 30
>> os level = 2
>> security = user
>>
>> [homes]
>> comment = Home directory
>> browseable = yes
>> read only = yes
>> create mode = 0700
>> username = XXX,YYY
>>
Hi,
IMHO it seems that there are more problems there.
At first Win9x makes the login to any SMB network with the user name that
is used in the login screen when Windows is started. If you for instance
login on your PC as "pcuser" Windows tries to log you in on the Samba
server as user "pcuser". If "pcuser" does not exist or has a
different
password you where asked for a password. The user name is checked against
the UNIX passwd if "encrypted passwords = no" or against smbpasswd if
encryption is enabled.
This is one part of the problem.
The second could be password encryption. It is not enough only to insert
the line "encrypted passwords = yes" if you do not follow all actions
that
are described in ENCRYPTION.TXT (in the docs section of the source
distribution) to setup correctly the usage of encrypted passwords on the
Samba server.
If you do not want to use encrypted password you have to manipulate your
Windows registry. This is not so difficult or risky as Steve wrote.
Enclosed in the source distribution you will find registry files for the
various kinds of Windows. Copy the right one to your PC double click on it
and restart your PC that's all. It just adds the right key to your
registry. But do not forget to set "encrypted passwords = no" in your
smb.conf.
Regards,
Axel Neumann
