samba - Sep 2010 - Access Samba from Windows 3.1

Hello,

I'm maintaining for historical reasons a couple of Windows 3.1 and 
Windows 95 installations. These run actually on Vmware. With the most 
recent version of Samba, I'm noticing that Microsoft Windows does not 
connect any more, and I get "authentication error".

How do I need to configure Samba in order to connect to the latest Samba 
server again? Unfortunately, I can't change the configuration of these 
old Windows installations. Hopefully, there are some options that I can 
write into smb.conf in order to re-enable old style Windows networking.

Thanks for your help in advance. :-)

Best Regards,
G.

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Public Mailing Lists
<lists at lists.cichon.com> wrote:
> How do I need to configure Samba in order to connect to the latest Samba
> server again? Unfortunately, I can't change the configuration of these
old
> Windows installations. Hopefully, there are some options that I can write
> into smb.conf in order to re-enable old style Windows networking.
Interesting. Windows 3.1 with the workgroup add-on package (I used
this with DOS) or WFWG 3.11?

Always best to read the Changelog for all of the versions between the
one you were at to the one you're moving to. As you don't mention
versions I can only guess that there was a change in the default
setting of some of these: "lanman auth", "client lanman
auth",
"encrypt passwords", "client plaintext auth". There may be
others
changes you want/need to be aware of as well.