Adam Williams
2005-Mar-17 23:36 UTC
[Samba] 2 servers, one with plaintext passwds, other encrypted passwds
Hello, at my workplace we have 2 samba servers. One is a PDC called archives1 with encrypted passwords. The other server is called Archives4 and it uses plaintext passwords (encrypted passwords = no in smb.conf). We have a Windows XP user who uses Archives1 for their file sharing, but wants to connect to a share on Archives4 as well. Being that this user uses XP with encrypted passwords, she can't do \\archives4\share because she gets the error \\10.8.82 is not accessible, yadda yadda yadda. She is getting this error because she's using encrypted passwords to connect to Archives1, but Archives4 uses plaintext passwords. I know I can set Achives4 to use enrypted passwords, and then run smbpasswd for each user and create them accounts, but that is a lot of work just for 1 user to access a share. So, besides enabling encrypted passwords on Archives4 and running smbpasswd for each user, what are my options to have this user still be able to access Archives1 with encrypted passwords and Archives4 with plaintext passwords?