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

[bill]

Hi Bob,

Finally got around to reading your e-mail.  Thanks for the reply and the patch.

I'm still a bit confused about what the patch does.

Does it enable encrypted password or enable plain text passwords?   The current
win95 machine (and I have more than one on this network) is using plain text
passwords, I believe.

You say you have to add the patch to every win machine in order to keep some WFWG
machines on the network.  That would mean it would be enabling plain text
passwords.  I don't have an WFWG machines, so I'd be interested in adding
encrypted passwords to the win95 machines.

kind regards,

bill

Bob Kanaley wrote:

> 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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