Lars Appel writes:
> The current Samba/iX approach has some problems associated with it:

...deletia...

> - Mixed shops (MPE, Unix, NT) might have trouble to connect clients
>   to MPE, Unix and NT servers at the same time because of the above.
>
>   Example: I have a PC share on one of our HPUX servers which I can
>   access as user "lappel" with a Unix-style password (which has to
>   contain at least one non-alphanum character for security reasons).
>   When I "log on" to my PC with the above username and password, I
>   cannot easily connect to 3000 based shares (MPE-style password).

I don't have this trouble on Win95.

I'm logged on to NT as MBIXBY, to my Unix Samba [homes] as markb, and to my MPE
Samba [homes] as MARK.TSS.  All passwords are different, and it works just
fine.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.  ;-)
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