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Samba -- 95 Clients ok, NT clients can't logon.
I just installed MacMillan's 6.5 Linux on AMD K6 233 with 64m ram, and configured Samba. My Win95 machines can get in just fine, but none of the NT 4.0 sp4 machines can. Error is that no logins from this workstation allowed. What must I change?
j2
You must set samba to accept encypted passwords. There is a "ecryption.txt" in the samba tarball, read it and follow it ;)
the problem is that if a Win95 machine tries to connect to a share, it will fall back to sending the password in PLAIN TEXT if the server requires. This is a major security hole, and NT does not do this. You CAN tell NT to use plain text passwords, but do you really want your passwords sent to the world in plain text?
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After doing a search on the drive, I can't find the file 'ecryption.txt.' I tried enabling encrypted passwords in smb.conf anyway, and what happended is that now even the win 95 machines can't connect. To be fair, I didn't tell you that I was trying to enable a public account for 'pcguest' with no password, but very limited share access. This may be part of the problem...Could there be a case-sensitive problem in finding the file mentioned?
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All I have is the 75 points...the link to 'More Points' is dead, so I couldn't do the survey and get more ; (
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I DO wish there were a good beginner's section in one of the generic books, on Linux that dealt with configuration of Samba and dealt with simple things like this...
I feel dumb.
I feel dumb.