samba - Aug 2000 - NT-Client and Username/Password on an Samba-Server

Hello ,

We use Samba Version 2.0.7 on all our Maschines (Linux/UNIXWARE/HP_UX).
Now we change from our NT-File-Server to Samba on Linux.
I transfer all User/Passwords from NT to Samba.
Now the problem:

If a Client (NT) connect a share from samba a window ask for user/password.
But the User and Password is the same on NT/Samba.
Why did samba ask ? If I enter the user/Password it works fine.
For Win98 its the same but I can save passwords there.

please help...

Michael Binder
Vogt electronic Fuba GmbH
Bahnhofstra?e 3
37534 Gittelde
Tel.: +49 5327 880 400
Fax: +49 5327 880 202
E-Mail: MBinder@VOGT-electronic.com

On Tue, 15 Aug 2000 mbinder@vogt-electronic.com wrote:
> If a Client (NT) connect a share from samba a window ask for user/password.
> But the User and Password is the same on NT/Samba.
> Why did samba ask ? If I enter the user/Password it works fine.
> For Win98 its the same but I can save passwords there.
See the "docs/textdocs/WinNT.txt" file which comes with Samba, or the
same file at a Samba web mirror site[1].

In summary: NT always does this when it is talking to a server which
does not support encrypted authentication. It does this because it does
not want to pass a plaintext password over the network without the user
being aware that this is happening and having a chance to veto the
connection. The only known way to make the connection happen silently,
with no password prompt, is to configure encrypted passwords on your
Samba server.

[1] http://ie.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/textdocs/WinNT.txt, for example

Regards,
-- 
Neil Hoggarth                                 Departmental Computer Officer
<neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>                   Laboratory of
Physiology
http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~njh/                  University of Oxford, UK