Windows and Samba, Re: bluecurve

[Cliff]

Yes, you can use encrypted passwords with a windows client and samba 
server (and vice versa).  Each windows username must have a 
corresponding entry in the smbpasswd file along with the encrypted 
windows password for that user.  

The challenge has been that samba can not use *nix passwds so you must 
maintain two separate password files.  One for *nix and one for samba. 
 There are some tricks to automatically create and update the smbpasswd 
file, but they have drawbacks as well.

Hope this helps,
Cliff

Dan Sanderson wrote:

>On disabling encrypted passwords in Windows (9x, NT, 2k):
> http://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/help/network/problems/samba_passwords.html
> http://enterprise.iet.auc.dk/Computer_ressources/Samba/plain_password.html
>
>I can't find any information on getting both a Windows client and a Samba
>server to use encrypted passwords; last time I had to do this, I was left
>to conclude that this isn't possible.  (Is the issue that Samba uses a
>different encryption method with "encrypt passwords = yes" and an
>/etc/smbpasswd file?)
>
>-- Dan
>
>On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, 'The Buddha' Doug McLean wrote:
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>>Speaking from experience, the Oreilly Samba book helped me quite a bit.  I
>>was in a similar situation (trying to get users to authenticate to a
>>certain linux server at the time), and got it to work A-ok.
>>
>>Also, one little thing I found (which should be mentioned in the book) is
>>that some versions of Windows can't do encrypted passwords by default.  I
>>think there's a way to change it in the Registry, depending on the version
>>of Windows.  So either you have adjust the Registry, or disable encrypted
>>passwords on Samba.  I prefer the former option where possible.  :)
>>
>>Anyhow, Samba rules!
>>
>>Doug McLean
>>Department of Microbiology
>>http://faculty.washington.edu/dougmc
>>PGP Public Key ID# 0xF96E92D8
>>
>>Meanwhile, in Gotham, jeremiah jester wrote:
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>>>Ah samba! the friend i love to hate. I have had no luck running samba when
>>>trying to auth based on a particular user. the pcguest account or 'guest ok
>>>= yes' works fine for share level access but cant seem to get user level to
>>>work. I bought the orielly samba book so hopefully with have time to figure
>>>out my ill ways soon.
>>>JJ
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Jeff Silverman" <jeffs at duet.cfr.washington.edu>
>>>To: "UW Linux Group" <linux at u.washington.edu>
>>>Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 11:17 AM
>>>Subject: Re: bluecurve
>>>
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>>>>On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Greg Stark wrote:
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>>>>>My next step is to actually dualboot this OS at work...  I'v got no
>>>>>clue how to join my linux computer onto a windows domain...  Ugh.
>>>>>
>>>>>Greg
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Use Samba.  I've done it, it works fairly well despite Microsoft's best
>>>>efforts to stop it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Jeff
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>--
>>>>Jeff Silverman,
>>>>Senior Computing Specialist 3, Fire and Environmental Research
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>>>>
>>>Applications (FERA) team.
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>>>
>>>>jeffs at duet.cfr.washington.edu   (206) 732-7815
>>>>http://duet.cfr.washington.edu
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