[ILUG] Samba and encrypted passwords

[Niall O Broin]

Yes, I know this is an oldie and a goodie and a VFAQ and I even know the
answer, but the trouble is the answer doesn't work :-(

I have a user using VMware and he needs to run Samba to access his Linux
home directory. He's NOT using the Samba which VMware installs but rather a
standard 2.2.1a . However, he gets password problems. If I put the magic
EnablePlainTextPassword key in the appropriate place in the registry with a
value of 1 he can mount his drive. However, if I change the value to 0 he
can't. Note that I am in each case doing the appropriate modification to the
value of 'encrypt passwords' in smb.conf and restarting the Samba server.

Ideas ?



Niall

P.S. The smb.conf is as simple as:

[global]
   workgroup = "WORKGROUP"
   guest account = nobody
   keep alive = 30
   os level = 4
   security = user

   socket options = TCP_NODELAY

   map to guest = Bad User

   interfaces = 192.168.1.16/255.255.255.0

   wins support = no
   encrypt passwords = no

[homes]
   comment = Home directories
   browseable = no
   read only = no
   create mode = 0750