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How is it possible to get authentication from windows NT (with PlainTextPassword disabled in the registry) from a unix server running SAMBA. The unix box does &nbsp;not use standard /etc/passwd for authentication but an application version. The unix server also has security set to server in the smb.conf file, where server is set to the unix box and not an NT PDC/BDC. 
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How is it possible to get authentication from windows NT (with PlainTextPassword disabled in the registry) from a unix server running SAMBA. The unix box does  not use standard /etc/passwd for authentication but an application version. The unix server also has security set to server in the smb.conf file, where server is set to the unix box and not an NT PDC/BDC. 

Unix SAMBA and windows NT Encryption

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.