Hello We're successfully running Samba 3.0.28a on a FreeBSD server and sharing files with XP clients. There's only one problem: By default, XP doesn't let the user save the password, so they have to type it every time they reboot. Is there a way to tell XP to remember the password between reboots/sessions? Thank you.
On 6/27/2008, Gilles (gilles.ganault@free.fr) wrote:> Is there a way to tell XP to remember the password between > reboots/sessions?Why on gods green earth would you want to do that? I know you can configure XP to auto-login with a certain username/password, but I've never even considered attempting that on a domain member so don't know if it will work in that context... -- Best regards, Charles
Hello Gilles, FreeBSD, and Samba friends, On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:39:46PM +0200, Gilles wrote:> Hello > > We're successfully running Samba 3.0.28a on a FreeBSD server and > sharing files with XP clients. There's only one problem: By default, > XP doesn't let the user save the password, so they have to type it > every time they reboot. > > Is there a way to tell XP to remember the password between > reboots/sessions? > > Thank you. > > --In general, saving a password isn't a good idea. It is annoying to remember a password by heart and to retype it again and again, but it is the best option. So probably there is a way to ``tell XP to remember the password between reboots/sessions``, but that is most probably not what you want. I advice you to re-consider the issue to find a proper solution. In order to help you in a more detailed way, you need to be more verbose and explicit to your problem when mailing it to the list. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, With kind regards, Mit freundlichen Gruessen, De jrus wah, Willy ************************************* Dr. W.K. Offermans CAT Postdoctoral Fellow CAT Catalytic Center Institut f?r Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie RWTH Aachen Worringerweg 1, Raum 38C-133 D-52074 Aachen, Germany Phone: +49 241 80 28591 Home: +31 45 544 49 44 Mobile: +31 653 27 16 23 e-mail: Willy@Offermans.Rompen.nl e-mail: Willy.Offermans@Catalyticcenter.RWTH-Aachen.de Powered by .... (__) \\\'',) \/ \ ^ .\._/_) www.FreeBSD.org
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr> wrote:> Hello > > We're successfully running Samba 3.0.28a on a FreeBSD server and > sharing files with XP clients. There's only one problem: By default, > XP doesn't let the user save the password, so they have to type it > every time they reboot. > > Is there a way to tell XP to remember the password between > reboots/sessions? >Although this has nothing at all to do with samba and is a huge security risk. Here is a link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963905.aspx John
On 2008-06-27, Charles Marcus (CMarcus@Media-Brokers.com) wrote:> On 2008-06-27, Gilles (gilles.ganault@free.fr) wrote: > >> Is there a way to tell XP to remember the password between >> reboots/sessions? > > Why on gods green earth would you want to do that? > > I know you can configure XP to auto-login with a certain > username/password, but I've never even considered > attempting that on a domain member so don't > know if it will work in that context...And on the same day a little later Willy Offermans <Willy@Offermans.Rompen.nl>> On 2008-06-27, Gilles (gilles.ganault@free.fr) wrote: > >> We're successfully running Samba 3.0.28a on a FreeBSD >> server and sharing files with XP clients. There's only one >> problem: By default, XP doesn't let the user save the password, >> so they have to type it every time they reboot. >> >> Is there a way to tell XP to remember the password between >> reboots/sessions?> In general, saving a password isn't a good idea. It is annoying > to remember a password by heart and to retype it again and again, > but it is the best option. So probably there is a way to > ``tell XP to remember the password between reboots/sessions``, > but that is most probably not what you want. I advice you to > re-consider the issue to find a proper solution.Yes, sure, it's a very bad idea, but a lot of industry fat-cats (if you can call banks and insurers industry, however industrious they are about your money) are willing to pay obscene amounts of fees to identity provision specialists to make single-sign-on possible for their employees, because if they have to keep 'em all in their heads they usually tend to regress to very mnemonic easy-to-crack passwords. I'm all for security but one needs to keep things in perspective. If I've logged myself in to a Samba NT-Type domain controller with a very complicated combination of capitals and lowercases, numerals and special characters, I don't see why the same password and account name pair should not be useable to also connect to a corporate print server, even if it is under the sovereignty of an AD-type controller which doesn't trust my server by default because it's not Microsoft. Gilles' complaint is actually very easy to amend in principle: Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> User Accounts And then to the tab "Manage Passwords". You can set a default user/password pair for "*.yourCompany.COM" and as many differing pairs as needed for those special resources with restricted rights like "taxes.courCompany.COM" and when you login again all those resources are at your fingertip automagically. The problem is that if you use roaming profiles in a Samba domain and you rolled out your clients by means of cloning a master client or some other complication like changing the domain SID midstream it won't work again and I'll be damned if I know why. Can someone be more constructive and less proselytic?
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:12:40 +0200, "Dragan Krnic" <dkrnic@googlemail.com> wrote:>Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> User AccountsThanks guys. This is just a three-host SOHO setup behind a firewall, so security is not really an issue.
>> After you cloned the machines. Did you change their sid using a sid >> changer? > > No. I think it's only relevant for AD-type domains. >I am pretty sure that this effects NT domains as well but you will probably be fine if no XP machines share any folders to other XP machines. John
> Errm, there's some misunderstanding here. > The auto-login feature is easy enough to implement by > manipulating the registry. > > Where I have problems with some users is that the credentials > for other resources outside of our own domain just disappear > after a log-out, although they should be preserved, > according to MS documentation. Something gets twisted > the wrong way under some conditions and it just won't > work anymore. >Oh, I see. I have never observed this behavior so I am not sure...>Autologin on the other hand is an absolute no-no. >Really hard to justify.Agreed. I only use this when installing an new machine. I disable it just after all is installed. John