[KLUG Members] Samba

Jon Smitley members@kalamazoolinux.org
04 Dec 2002 19:49:28 -0500


And does this mean that if I go with the Win98 hack and not use
encrypted passwords with Samba, that I will have issues when trying to
add a NT/2K/XP machine using encrypted passwords later on.  Just
covering my bases here.

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:31, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> >Does Win98 need to have its passwords encrypted?  
> 
> No, NT/WinY2k/Xpee do, for complete functionality.
> 
> >If not, then is it not better to hack Win98 and save the pain of setting up 
> >encrypted passwords in Samba.  
> 
> It really isn't that hard.  And once you done it,  you just forget about it. 
> And having the NT hash around is rather handy for PPP or VPN CHAP authentication.
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