Re: samba won't authenticate win98?

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel Infinity-ltd com>]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, gregory mott wrote:

> what could i be doing wrong?  with security=share, win98(se) can only get
> into public services, and with security=user, win98 can't get into
> anything.  redhat7.1.2 auth options were all defaulted at install, and
> identical usernames and passwords were entered in redhat and win98, yet
> win98 always complains "The password is incorrect. Try again." when
> attempting to connect to any redhat share.  attempts to map to
> \\server\service%username fail the same way.  winNT4.0 gets in with no problem.
>
> my smb.conf:
> [global]
>     server string = Data Cable Samba Server
>     workgroup = workgroup
>     log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>     max log size = 0
>     security = user
>     ssl CA certFile = /usr/share/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
>     socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>     dns proxy = no
>     writeable=yes
>
> [temp]
>     comment= Temporary space (erased after 10 days)
>     path= /v/temp
>     public=yes
>
> [homes]
>     comment = Home Directory
>     path= /v/h/homes/%S
>     browseable=no
>
> [share]
>     comment = Shared/Group/Project Folders
>     path= /v/h/share
>
> gregory mott
> tel 978-386-9986, icq 5856302
>
You should probably read the ENCRYPTION.txt file in the Samba
documentation.  You have to ether enable plain-text passwords in Windows
98, or create the /etc/smbpasswd file, set the user's passwords, and
enable encription in Samba.  Samba can only use the normal password file
if Windows is sending plain-text passwords.

Mikkel
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