In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, it's not really a downgrade (but I understand you think so), because >now samba allows you to have different passwords for samba and shell.
That's not the reason - the reason is that windows "encrypted passwords" are not compatible with Unix hashed passwords as in /etc/passwd. It will work if your windows installation has encrypted passwords turned off (for Win98 and 2000, you need to change some obscure registry entry). >There is a program that converts all the passwords from /etc/passwd to >smbpasswd, I can't remember the name. That's because such a program cannot exist. Passwords in /etc/passwd are one-way encrypted (hashed really) and you cannot decode them in any way. >I always use smbpasswd -a <USER> (as >root) to give anybody who needs access to samba, they can then later >change it with smbpasswd. (The -a options says that if the user is not in >smbpasswd smbpasswd has to add the user). If you have win3.1 or 95 clients (or 98/2000 with the registry fixed) and you turn off the "encrypt passwords" parameter in smb.conf samba will use /etc/passwd to authenticate. Mike. -- The From: and Reply-To: addresses are internal news2mail gateway addresses. Reply to the list or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
