[PLUG] Samba problem solved...

[Brent Jones]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Michael C. Robinson
<plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
> For anyone who has upgraded to or past samba-3.2.0, Win9x and WinME
> clients stopped working.  The reason they stopped working is that newer
> versions of Samba turn lanman authentication and plaintext
> authentication off by default.  Three lines added to smb.conf and
> redoing the passwords fixes the problem, but I wish a better solution
> was offered.  Win9x and WinMe are capable of accepting third party
> networking software.  Why not implement NT style passwords on these
> older versions of Windows that some people are stuck with for
> whatever reason?  To what degree is support of lanman style passwords
> needed for Win9x and WinME clients?  Do individual Win9x apps expect
> lanman style passwords, or is this abstracted properly?  A free
> replacement Microsoft style networking stack for Win9x that does
> NT style passwords and hashing would be great.
>

I think theres more to worry about while running Win9x or WinME than
porting new versions of SMB to them, along with all the required
security modules...



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Brent Jones
brent at servuhome.net