[wplug] Samba (sometimes)

[Zach Paine]

On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:43:12 jjlasalle wrote:
> 
> 
> Sometimes my Windows clients don't logon to my Samba server. The Windows
> 98 
> domain logon complains about an invalid account or password. Repeating
> the 
> logon procedure two or three times (with the same information) will 
> eventually connect. Has anyone run into this problem before?  BTW,  I
> read 
> the "fine" manuals. :)

"fine"?

There are a lot of issues w/ password encryption and win98.  You should
look into the subject.
Taken from the SMB howto:
"In the [global] section of /etc/smb.conf, add the following lines: 



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



You are highly encouraged to read the files ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and
WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation before doing this!"

If you have encryption enabled, read those files! 

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