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

[Buist Justin]

Is there a technical reason why Samba can't work with both encrypted and unencrypted passwords at the same time?  That's always bothered me.  If I'm not mistaken an NT or a 2k SMB fileserver will, why can't Samba?

Justin Buist


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Kanaley [mailto:rvk@agdia.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 4:05 PM
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: [KLUG Members] RE: samba w/ win95 & win98
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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