[KLUG Members] samba encrypted passwords

Adam Tauno Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Fri Aug 5 21:01:55 EDT 2005


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> I've enabling encrypted passwords for the XP boxes in smb.conf and ran
> the mksmbpasswd.sh script, making sure smb.conf points to the resulting
> file.

This is 3.0.x?  I believe it now uses the TDB backend by default and smbpasswd
is only provided for legacy support.  Try using the tdb passdb module or
specify the smbpasswd passdb via the passdb backend directive.

> But, the XP boxes won't connect.  If I disable encrypted passwords and
> use a box not using encrypted passwords it connects fine.  I've set up
> several samba networks without encrypted passwords but I'd like to use
> encrypted passwords with this one.
> 


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