[H-GEN] samba and NT SP5

Craig Armour c.armour at kings.uq.edu.au
Fri Aug 20 23:55:30 EDT 1999


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Hi

> Anyone know how to enable samba to support encrypted password authentication?
> It's either that or a registry hack to allow NT to do plain passwords. I have
> the hack.

these two options need to be enabled

Encrypted passwords = yes 
smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd

the drawk backs with using encrypted passwords is that you have to
maintain a seconed passwd file.  to add users to the samba passwd file,
you use smbpasswd command.  This is alright if you have a dedicated
samba server and the users don't use mail etc but for a general purpose
workgroup box, this get's annoying.

there is probably a workaround but I havn't read the latest info on the
latest samba's for some time

Cheers
Craig
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