Greg,

> Does EnablePlainTextPassword turn off encryption for
> passwords entirely, or
> just allow it for SAMBA and the like? TechNet had the
> following ambiguous
> statement. Does this mean that NT SP3 tries to use encrypted
> passwords,
> then, if that fails with "System error 1240", tries
> unencrypted? Or are they
> all now plain text?

EnablePlainTextPasswords does exactly this - it causes the PC to NOT encrypt
the password pair going to NT Server at all.  Samba 1.9.16p9 cannot handle
encrypted passwords, and hence, why the registry hack needs to be put into
place.

NT 4.0 SP3 should be able, however, to deal with it.  Win3.x and Win 95 950
and 950a still use Non-encrypted passwords, and NT *must* still deal with
them.  We have several NT servers, most are 4.0 SP3 (the other is higher
than that, but I can't talk about that) --- and ALL handle authentication of
our Samba workstations just fine.

Best Regards,
Joe

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