Re: SAMBA and Windows 2000

From: Taulelle Francis (taulelle@chimie.u-strasbg.fr)
Date: Fri Feb 23 2001 - 07:37:10 PST


Hi,

I think we had a comparable problem when we switched from Win95 to Win98.
The solution we found was to add
encrypt passwords = yes
in smb.conf file
and the restart samba

I hope it helps.
Francis Taulelle.

At 09:12 23/02/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I recently switched from running NT to windows 2000 on my PC's. Before
>the switch I was using samba on serveral SGI's to allow easy transfer of
>nmr data. Does anyone out there have this setup with a windows 2000 based
>computer? I cannot get it working now and I get a message stating that
>"this account cannot login."
>
>Perhaps the problem I am having is related to how the password is
>transmitted to the SGI. WhenI was running NT I had the system setup with
>the password being sent unencrypted to the SGI. To do this required a
>change in the NT registry. Perhaps something similar is needed for
>windows 2000. If any of you have a procedure to do this or for that
>matter the way to set up the system to send encrypted passwords, I would

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