Needing to Enable Plain Text Passwords on more machines than I wanted to go to (for access to our SAMBA/iX shares), I exported the key from my registry, renamed it EnablePlainTextPassword.reg, put it out in our shared area, and emailed our developers a file protocol link to it, with instructions to launch it to Merge it into their registry, which is the default for .regs. For some strange reason, not everyone here was sure they wanted to do this without understanding what it would do, and one of the suits here asked some very specific questions. Members of this list helped tremendously with my request for an explanation of what this key does. After following the manual instructions, you can export just this key to create a .reg, or cut and paste the following (distribution is up to your norms, although I can offer my $.02 offlist if it would help): REGEDIT4 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters] "EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001