Re: samba query

["David A. Parker" <dparker@utica.edu>]

Daniel Dalton wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:50:10PM -0500, David Parker wrote:
> >    This works fine for me.  You might simply be missing a line in your config
> >    file or something.
> >
> >    In your smb.conf:
>
> Thanks:) I'll give that a shot and see how it goes. On a home network
> with wpa encryption, and a firewall that drops just about everything,
> except out going, and receiving of data from a connection that was
> established from behind the router, am I pretty safe to not worry about
> password encryption? I do trust everyone currently on the network. Or is
> it still a good idea. I'll enable it for another level of security, but
> just wondering how necessary this is for a small home network?

The "encrypt passwords" option specifies whether or not Samba expects 
plain-text or encrypted passwords to be transmitted from the client, and 
it also affects how those passwords are stored in the smbpasswd file. 
As I understand it, encrypted passwords are required in order for Samba 
to work correctly with modern version of Windows (2000 and newer).  This 
option should be enabled unless you have some specific reason to disable it.

    - Dave

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Dave Parker
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