Re: win98 and samba
I use Encrypted Passwords with Samba and Win98 without incident. My only
"problem" was being sure to run smbpasswd to add all the users to the
Samba password database.
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Gareth wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Chris Hoover wrote:
> > Is there anything special I have to setup to allow win98 to access my samba
> > shares? It keeps failing to authenticate my password. I tried turning on
> > encrypted passwords, but that did not seem to work.
>
> You must turn _off_ encrypted passwords in win98 unless your SAMBA server
> is using a password server (the NT domain controller and its backup).
>
> I was having this problem and it turned out to be samba was not rereading
> the config file when I made changes to it try /etc/init.d/samba restart
> or force-reload use testparm to check this.
>
> To turn off encrypted passwords
> >From memory (the details are sketchy) run the script from the win98 cd in
> msutils folder called pton (or something like that).
>
>
> ---Gareth
>
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