samba - Jun 2003 - Running Windows 2000 Login Scripts Without Password Encryption

Hi Again,
 
Same old same old.  Here's a different spin on the question, though.  Now
I'm wondering if there's a way to run login scripts automatically on a
2000 machine.  I've got Samba set up properly (I think).  It's running
as a PDC, without password encryption (due to the way the rest of our network is
set up - as of now it's not going to change, so I have to find a work
around).  Obviously, this is a bit of a pain, but I can't do much about it. 
I did have everything working well when encryption was turned on, so I'm
fairly certain I know what I'm doing.
 
In any case, we've decided that backing off to simply running login scripts
without doing roving profiles (our original goal) is acceptable for now.  This
would be fine, but I keep running into the same problem.  The [netlogon] share
has guest access turned on, but when I logon with a 2000 machine, no script
runs.  When I access the share by either running \\server\netlogon or
\\server\netlogon\logon.bat (logon.bat is the simple test script I'm using)
on my 2000 machine, an authentication window pops up asking for a username and
password.  Since guest access is on, I can just hit enter and access to the
share is granted.  The problem is having to input that blank username and
password and I have no idea how to get around that.
 
Further problems lie in trying to get the shares that REQUIRE a username and
password authenticated in the script, but I've managed a workaround for that
with a heavy-handed VBscript that asks the user for their username and password
again.  Irregardless, this isn't the point of this question, just an
indication of where I'm trying to take this.
 
Oh, and I can logon to the domain in Windows 95 and run a logon script there, so
I know that it works sometimes.  It's not a syntax problem with the script
either, because once I authenticate as a guest user under 2000 the script runs
fine there as well.
 
Sorry for the lengthy e-mail and thanks for your help!
 
Dan


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