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List:       samba-ntdom
Subject:    Re: Authenticaion of NT users to their Unix user space via Samba.
From:       Lars Kneschke <lk () netuse ! de>
Date:       2000-02-21 14:48:13
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Paul Kenneth Egell-Johnsen wrote:
> 
> I'm sorry to burst in this door, I've read the faq, I've searched the
> samba.org site, and I don't know what to do, even now.
> 
> The problem is this, I have a network with SGI computers whoose shared
> drives some NT workstations are accessing. This have worked fine until
> now. After acquiring two new NT workstations, it seems that I can't get
> them to access the shared drives.
> 
> As far as I can ascertain it is because of the password/username
> supplied by the new (ie. Service Pack 4) versions of the OS is
> encrypted, while the old way was unencrypted. Where do I change this to
> encryptet (or rather unencrypted) on the NT box? I can't find any
> answers pertaining to that. But a couple of unanswered questions to that
> same effect, seems to lurk in the archives.
This is the registry patch to enable plainpasswords.

Cu

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Lars Kneschke
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["NT4_PlainPassword.reg" (text/plain)]

REGEDIT4

;Contributor:   Tim Small (tim.small@virgin.net)
;Updated:	20 August 1997
;Status:	Current
;
;Subject:	Registry file to enable plain text passwords in NT4-SP3 and later

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters]
"EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001



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