[COLUG] RE: [CCSLinux] Samba and WinXp Pro 2002

[Mark L. Wise]

> Mark
>
> Mark, I was under the impression that XP required a registry patch to
> turn off encrypted passwords -- are you sure that this patch has been
> applied to the XP 2002 machines?  It may be a different key in XP 2002
> than it was in XP.
>
> Not sure, just a guess.

I forgot to say that I have made the appropriate patches because this
configuration worked when the server was an SCO Unix box running a prior
version of SAMBA.

>
> The PAM authentication means it is trying to use the encrypted password,
> rather than the plain-text one stored in SAMBA.
>
> -Scott
>
>
Thanks for the information.  Sorry I was not clear on the previous version
of SAMBA working fine with these two machines....

Mark