[H-GEN] Samba and password case

[David Wood]

Robert Stuart wrote:
> We are running Samba 1.9.18p7 on a RH 5.0 box.  We have win95 (OSR2)
> clients with winsock2.
> The problem is that users who have passwords with mixed case can't log
> in.

Samba has a boatload of options to deal with case, for both filenames
and passwords.  Have a look at:

     short preserve case = yes
     preserve case = yes

and my all-time favorite:

     mangle case = no

Cheers,
Dave
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