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Samba experts, I am running samba 3.0.3-5 of Samba on Fedora core 2 (Red Hat). I am trying to use encrypted passwords. However, when a user tries to connect to their samba account, they end up getting automatically disabled. Their encyrpted password becomes all X's. Can anyone tell me why this might be happening at the moment they attempt to login? Here are my global variables in case that helps? [global] dns proxy = no log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log load printers = yes printing = cups...

...under Linux. I've spent much of last week and much of today [trying to learn] LDAP, and today, finally deciding to dump that, but proceeding with Samba as a PDC. For Samba as a PDC - what is the best way to have Win XP Pro w/SP2 successfully authenticate to Samba as a domain controller with encyrpted passwords? And, to have Samba establish the user's home directory as a mapped drive? I've used a barrage of web sites showing various smb.conf confing files but can't yet get my test XP machine to authenticate to the domain I set in my smb.conf file. For NIS - what is the best...

My company supplies me with a very nice HP nc2400. Much faster, more memory, etc than my old HP nc4010. Problem is the drive is not swappable, and they encrypt the drive (the OS is XP). The nc2400 has a DVD/CDRW and 2 USB 2.0 ports so I was thinking..... Make a Live DVD with everything I need but map /etc /root /home and /var/log (and what else?) to a USB flash drive (16Gb are available

Hi list, I have to build vpn server for 1500 clients. No encryption necessary. can anyone please recommend me vpn server. I do not have experience on vpn. I have tested openvpn on my test setup, & its working fine. I want to check if there any other vpn server available. I have not checked but can pptp vpn be usefull? My requirement is to connect 1500 clients on vpn server. Need