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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
