samba - Jan 2002 - Windows 2000 logon problems - how to set plain text passwords?

I'm sorry if this is a common question, but I can't find the answer in
the archives.

I recently installed Samba 2.2.1 on my Mandrake 8.1 box and can use it
fine with my Win98 machine, although I did have to edit the registry to
enable plain text passwords to get it working.

I have now acquired a notebook with Win2000, and while this will show
the Samba share in Windows Explorer, attempts to connect to it return
the 'incorrect user or password' dialogue.

I'm not that familiar with Win2000 and the registry is obviously
somewhat different to Win98. I've seen a post on a key to edit,
(rdr/parameters) but it's not present on this machine.

Should I just create this key or what?

Is there a little howto or faq somewhere that shows how to do this in
Win2000 that I can refer to?

Any pointers appreciated.

TIA

Peter Rose
London UK
"I don't like your fashion business mister" 
  - Leonard Cohen / First We Take Manhattan

Peter Rose wrote:
> 
> I'm sorry if this is a common question, but I can't find the answer
in
> the archives.
> 
> I recently installed Samba 2.2.1 on my Mandrake 8.1 box and can use it
> fine with my Win98 machine, although I did have to edit the registry to
> enable plain text passwords to get it working.
> 
> I have now acquired a notebook with Win2000, and while this will show
> the Samba share in Windows Explorer, attempts to connect to it return
> the 'incorrect user or password' dialogue.
> 
> I'm not that familiar with Win2000 and the registry is obviously
> somewhat different to Win98. I've seen a post on a key to edit,
> (rdr/parameters) but it's not present on this machine.
> 
> Should I just create this key or what?
I think you might need to create the key.
> Is there a little howto or faq somewhere that shows how to do this in
> Win2000 that I can refer to?
> 
> Any pointers appreciated.
You should just be able to apply the registry patch as supplied in the
distribution. (docs/Registry)

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
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Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet@samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet@hawkerc.net
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The registry-Key is in the docu-directory of the samba source. And 
here it is:

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\LanmanWorkStatio
n\Parameters]
"EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001

Christian

> I'm sorry if this is a common question, but I can't find the answer
in
> the archives.
> 
> I recently installed Samba 2.2.1 on my Mandrake 8.1 box and can use it
> fine with my Win98 machine, although I did have to edit the registry to
> enable plain text passwords to get it working.
> 
> I have now acquired a notebook with Win2000, and while this will show
> the Samba share in Windows Explorer, attempts to connect to it return
> the 'incorrect user or password' dialogue.
> 
> I'm not that familiar with Win2000 and the registry is obviously
> somewhat different to Win98. I've seen a post on a key to edit,
> (rdr/parameters) but it's not present on this machine.
> 
> Should I just create this key or what?
> 
> Is there a little howto or faq somewhere that shows how to do this in
> Win2000 that I can refer to?
> 
> Any pointers appreciated.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Peter Rose
> London UK
> "I don't like your fashion business mister" 
>   - Leonard Cohen / First We Take Manhattan
> 
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