[KLUG Members] RE: samba w/ win95 & win98

[Bob Kanaley]

Bill,

Win9X secure!!!!!

HA, HA, HA, ho, ho, ho.

That made my day. I have to keep far too many WinXXX boxes running not to
laugh at that one.

Below I have a reg patch for Win95 machines to enable encrypted passwords to
be used with samba. The default is to use encrypted passwords in Win95 on
every machine I put on my network. So, I think you have some very old Win95
machines, you already are using encrypted passwords, or somebody already
applied the PlainPassword.reg to those machines.

I still have two WfWg 3.11 machines on my network that have to access a
samba share for data files. They don't have a clue about encrypting
passwords and there is no way to make them understand. Win95 on the other
hand can use encrypted passwords.

Since that is the WinXXX default, every time I put a Win95, Win98, Win2000,
or WinXP client on the network, I have to apply the PlainPassword registry
patch, just to be able to keep those two boxen on the network.

For Win95, copy the following text into a plain text editor and save as
Win95_encrypt.reg or whatever you want to call it. As long as it has the
.reg extension you are OK. Just copy the reg file onto a floppy or access it
accross the network on the Win95 machine. Doubleclick on the reg file and
say you want to add this key to your registry.

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP]
"EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000000

Bob

Robert V. Kanaley
Manager Information Systems
Agdia, Inc.
rvk@agdia.com
http://www.agdia.com

Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 13:32:58 -0400
From: bill <bill@billtron.com>
To: "members@kalamazoolinux.org" <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Subject: [KLUG Members]
Reply-To: members@kalamazoolinux.org

If Win95 doesn't encrypt passwords for network sharing and Win98 -does-
encrypt
passwords for network sharing can they both interact with the same Samba
server?

Is there a configuration in Samba to handle both?

Or do Win95 machines need to somehow be updated to use encryption or should
the
Win98 machines be modified to not use encryption (which sounds less secure)?

kind regards,

bill