samba - May 2000 - Windows 2000 patch for passwords

Hello, I'm a new subscriber and hope I don't break any rules.

We have just bought some new PC's pre-installed with Windows 2000.  On
our previous installations (NT and 95/98) we applied the
EnablePlainTextPassword registry patch to allow our PCs to communicate
with our Unix server and other systems - no problem.  Is there a similar
patch for Windows 2000?  We can't communicate, and I assumed that the
same patch would work (the NT version anyway).  But the same key doesn't
exist in my Windows 2000 registry.

Any help?
Barb

[Barbara Osbon <barb@orion-sim.com>]
> On our previous installations (NT and 95/98) we applied the
> EnablePlainTextPassword registry patch to allow our PCs to
> communicate with our Unix server and other systems - no problem.  Is
> there a similar patch for Windows 2000?
You don't say which version of Samba you are using.  The latest stable
version, 2.0.7, includes the file "docs/Win2000_PlainPassword.reg",
included below.  Also, you might wish to consider upgrading to 2.0.7
anyway, because it fixes several known bugs with Windows 2000 (well,
"works around several known Windows 2000 bugs" would be more like it).

Peter

REGEDIT4



;Contributor:   Herb Lewis (herb@sgi.com)

;Updated:	16 July 1999

;Status:	Current

;

;Subject:	Registry file to enable plain text passwords in Windows 2000



[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkStation\Parameters]

"EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001