- To: "Jon Biddell" <jon@xxxxxxxxx>, <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Win2K and Samba
- From: "Jeff Waugh" <jdub@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun Sep 17 21:38:37 2000
> When getting my wife's WinNT box to talk to Samba, I seem to remember I
> had to hack the registry to allow clear passwords (not secure, but for the
> home network, adequate).
>
> Does anyone have any idea if this is still the case with Windows 2000 ?
Samba can in fact handle the encrypted passwords, and I don't remember
hearing that Win2K changed anything in regards to that.
You should be right whether you disable them or not.
- Jeff
-- please excuse the email software :)
-- i haven't gnu parted the hard drives at work (yet)