[ILUG] Samba & Win95

[Liam O'Hagan]

>From "Samba Server Adminstration".....
Cleartext is used by Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95 and Windows NT
3.1-4.0
Encryption is used by Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2), Windows 98,
Windows ME, Windows NT 4.0 SP3 and Windows 2000.

Choices :
1) Patch the Windows 95 Machine
2) Get the other 2 Machines to send Cleartext as follows :
Start RegEdit and go to key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP
Create a new DWORD key named EnablePlainTextPasswords with a value of 01 and
restart the PC

Disclaimer : I've only tried option 2 above on W95 machines. Don't know if
it works on W98.

Regards,

Liam


----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Dickson" <simon at dicksonent.com>
To: "Anders Holm" <anders at novara.ie>; "Barry Redmond"
<barry.redmond at cs.tcd.ie>; <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Samba & Win95


> I remember reading about windows 95 not using encryption for login over
smb
> unless patched, so maybe one of your 95 machines have been patched, and
the
> problem one isnt. Read it the samba config file. I haven't looked into it
any.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Simon
>
> On Thursday 17 January 2002 22:59, Anders Holm wrote:
> > Hi Barry!
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > One other clue:  if I run nbstat on the problem machine I get an error
> > > that it can't access the nbt driver (can't remember exact wording).
> > > Looks like something may be missing.  But what exactly?
> >
> > If I'd where you I'd reinstall the network card and all set up the
> > networking again. If you remove the network card in the Device manager
and
> > reboot, Windows should then reinstall the driver and TCP/IP also....
Then
> > it's just a matter of configuring the IP etc. etc.
> >
> > Hope that helps you....
>
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