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Old 12-05-2000, 05:13 PM   #1
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I am configuring samba but keep running into a certain problem. I have everything up and running, and when I go to access the shares from my win98 machine it goes to the IPC$, which I don't want and it asks for a password, but i read that windows is sending an encrypted password and samba is waiting for a plaintext one. So i read that i need to tell samba to encrypt its passwords and then create the smbpasswd file with the users from /etc/passwd in it. I did both of these and restarted samba. Now when I go to access the shares, it just says it can't find the computer or the shares. Where am I going wrong??

(this is on redhat 7.0, so i'm using xinetd)

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Old 12-07-2000, 10:24 AM   #2
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You can configure samba to accept the encriptive password that Windows 98 sends.

Do you have the following in your smb.conf file? The commented out line, I used to use this for Window 95 compatibility which didn't send encrypted passwords. At the time when I was working on it, I'm not sure if this was the key that made the system compatible with both, but I believe it was. I included it so that you can test it out doing your configuration process to have compatibility both ways.

Posting the version of Samba your using and your smb.conf will help us identify the problem, if you're continuing to have the problem.

encrypt passwords = yes
# update encrypted = yes

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Old 06-14-2005, 03:31 AM   #3
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samba and password

Hi all,

same problem is with me also. when i make changes in the smb.conf
encrypt passwords = yes
root is unable to access the samba shares but other users can access.

when i put comment on the above statement
# encrypt passwords = yes
root can access the samba shares and vise versa.

expecting a good reply on this.

VijayL
 
  


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