Re: [cobalt-developers] Samba whoes

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Mike Jones wrote:

> Hi all, apologies if this is a bit of a newbie question but my Linux
> knowledge is expanding fast thanks to my new Qube3. However, I'm having
> troubles with the Qube's file sharing and Win98. I haven't installed any
> software on the Qube apart from Cobalt updates. I've set the Qube to
> authenticate 95/98 but all I get it the Qube showing up in Network
> Neighborhood but timing out when I try and access it...Anyone care to share
> their insight or point me to  a resource?
> 
> It DHCP's OK, FTP's and AppleShare is fine just Windows has a problem...why
> am I surprised at that :¬}
> 
> Regards
> M
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If you'ld have read the samba documentation, you would have saw that they
say why doesn't it work.

The reason is that samba uses plaintext passwords while windows usess
encrypted ones. The encryption method is NOT one way, and because of that,
if someone sniffs the password on the network, he can decrypt it easily,
so they didn't even had enable encryption support at all.

What you should do, is tell Windows to use plaintext passwords.

Append this file to the registry:
/usr/doc/samba-2.0.5a/docs/Win98_PlainPassword.reg

If you have other samba, the directory name will be different.
Use "locate Win98" to find the file.

b. regards,

shimi.