It doen't let you play because:-
-If you apply service pack 3 it uses encrypted passwords
-Samba prefers plain text passwords
-You can either llook and the > encrypt passwords = yes option as specified
below
-Or you can modify your registry
- Or you can "not" apply service pack 3
On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Julius Smith wrote:
> >%_At 06:57 PM 6/22/2000 +0200, José Luis Tinoco wrote:
> >KThorpe wrote:
> >
> > > I've just installed a copy of Windows NotTested 4.0. For some reason
> > > it can't see my samba box unlike all my Win95 systems. I'm suspecting
> > > the Samba end as I see the following messages in /var/log/samba/log.smb
> > > when I try to browse.
> >
> >Hi Kevin!
> >
> >In the docs to samba (on my box in /usr/doc/packages/samba) you can find
> >useful infos which could help you fixing your problem. Probably it´s about
> >the password encryption. You should apply the registry patch you find there
> >to your NotTested box, that solved my problems.
>
> That registry patch enables use of plain-text passwords over your local net
> (which NT won't do by default). This is a little scary if your local net
> is directly connected to the Internet (e.g., via a cable modem with no
> firewall). It *should* be easy also to convert Samba to using encrypted
> passwords:
>
> FIRST MAKE A COPY OF /etc/smb.conf IN CASE YOU NEED TO BACK OUT.
>
> In /etc/smb.conf, you first have, in your [global] section,
> smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
> null passwords = yes
> update encrypted = yes
> encrypt passwords = no
>
> where /etc/smbpasswd is set up by saying
>
> cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/smbpasswd
> /usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd -n username
>
> mksmbpasswd.sh is in the Samba distribution (you can use locate to find it).
> The -n removes the password for username in /etc/smbpasswd.
> username is of course the user Windows NT claims to be when accessing shares.
> (You must be using "security=user", of course, but you are probably doing
> that already.)
>
> After you have accessed a Samba share from NT (which causes your
> NT-encrypted password to be stored by Samba in /etc/smbpasswd), change the
> above to
> smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
> encrypt passwords = yes
>
> It should now be working. Any reasonable Samba book will take you through
> these steps in more detail.
>
> I'm no expert on Samba, and there might be an unnecessary step or two
> above, but the above procedure worked for me.
>
> jos
>
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