Re: [cobalt-users] SMB - Windows file sharing problems

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well I saw that problem too....
Locally, with smbclient, I could connect and everything was ok. But from
winblows? Either it didn't saw my machine at all, or it saw it, and asked
for a password - and I defined a pass in samba and tried entering it in
winblows, but no luck.

So I went to RTFM :)

Appears Microsoft are very worried about security. That's why they encrypt
the passwords before they're sent to the other side.
This is very stupid. This is not a one-way hash. If you know the algorithm
(and you do) - you can decrypt the password after you sniffed it. So the
whole thing is just plain stupid. So SAMBA developers just didn't write
that encryption function inside it.

You'll have to tell all your Windows machines to use plaintext passwords,
and that works. (or at least for me)

How to do that?

inside /usr/share/doc/samba-x.x.x/docs (replace x.x.x with your ver)
There are four files:

NT4_PlainPassword.reg
Win2000_PlainPassword.reg
Win95-PlainPassword.reg
Win98_PlainPassword.reg

Apply the correct registry modifications for your OS, and that should
generally work.

As usual, I'm not responsible :)
backup ur registry or smth.

  Best regards,
     shimi [mailto:shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]


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On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jonathan Bergstrom wrote:

> Any suggestions on setting up a Qube3 as a domain login authenticator for a
> small network?
> Good/Bad idea?  I can't seem to get my network to see it as a valid domain
> controller.  Problems with win2k seeing it especially.
> 
> I would love to avoid purchasing NT and a server box if I could get the qube
> to do this.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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