Thanks Michael and Greg,

The explanations help!

I'll give the registry hack a shot. That should do it I expect.

I wasn't really too concerned about the security implications of plain text pass-
words as much as fooling with something and rendering my one remaining
PC useless (I'm not batting a 1000 with these things lately :).

Best Regards,

Bill
HP/CSY


>Bill writes:
>> Does Win98 1st ed. send encrypted passwords by default? And...
>Yes
>
>>
>> Can a share require them? That is, if I enable plain text
>> passwords I could
>> get to shares (such as Samba on a 3K) that don't like encryption
>> but be unable
>> to get to shares that might require it.
>Not exactly.  The requirement to use encrypted passwords is a
>[global] section setting, so you can't have some shares require
>it while others don't.  What actually happens (this is the 10,000
>foot view BTW :) is when you initially connect up, both the client
>and server negotiate how they are going to talk to each other.
>Once they decide that, they get down to authenticating the client
>in one way or another.  If you've enabled plain-text passwords
>on the client, all that means is that if the authentication via
>encrypted methods fail, as a last resort the client will send
>over the unencrypted password to the server.
>  So, if you have other SMB servers that your client will connect
>up to that do require encrypted passwords, your client will work
>fine with them, even if you install the clear-text registry hack.
>
>>
>> I've installed Samba 2.0.3 on a 3K I have. Everything seems to
>> work, smbclients
>> on different 3K's can connect to shares with passwords. My PC can
>> connect to
>> shares that have no password (guest ok) but it will not connect
>> when a password
>> is required. The next logical step is to enable plain text
>> passwords in the
>> registry.  This is a work PC so I need to be just a bit careful
>> about what I do to it.
>Yep, you'll need to install the registry hack.
>
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