[ale] samba1.9.18

[Gary Maltzen]

Patrick Ramsey asked:
> Does anyone know of any known issues with samba and 98/nt machines?  I can 
> see my linux box fine under 95 but when I go to it from a 98 machine or NT 
> box it tells me "password incorrect/User not allowed to log in from this 
> workstation"

I have Samba configured to work with NT, 95 and 98. I suggest you start by upgrading to 2.0.3-19990228 (or later) which has improved support for NT encrypted passwords. I have used it in both user and server mode.

Under RH5.2, documents (mentioned below) about various techniques can be found in 

 /usr/doc/samba-2.0.3/docs/textdocs

You can either choose to (1) support an encrypted password file on Linux; (2) bounce authentication requests of an NT server; or (3) enable plain-text passwords on the WinXX platforms.

For (1) you need to set security=user, encrypted=yes and use mksmbpasswd.sh to create an encrypted passwd file for samba from your /etc/passwd file. Details are in ENCRYPTION.txt. In this mode, users need to invoke `smbpasswd` on the Linux box to change their password.

For (2) you need to set security=server and server=NTserver; note that users have to BOTH an /etc/passwd entry as well as an NT user account.

For (3) you need to change a registry entry on *each* NT and 98 system so that they can send plaintext passwords. Details are in WinNT.txt.