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[ILUG] Why NT can't explore samba?

[ILUG] Why NT can't explore samba?

Conor Daly conor.daly at oceanfree.net
Tue Dec 19 10:25:44 GMT 2000


On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 05:35:07PM +0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
dan at public1.wx.js.cn thought:
> It works with a windows95 client. but when I click the icon of the linux 
> box in network neighborhood from a NT server, it pops up a windows 
> that says wrong password or unknown username.  I tried put in the 
> username and password as specified in the smb.conf file it tells me the 
> username is not allowed on the linux machine. but the username does 
> work for all windows95 clients. Could anyone tell me what's wrong 
> with this NT client?
A lack of encrypted password support in samba I'd guess.  I haven't played
with such stuff myself so you'll have to read the documentation!

-- 
Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net>

Domestic Sysadmin :-)
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