[ale] First Use of Samba

[nlucent at mindspring.com (Nick Lucent)]

use encrypted passwords if your using osr2 or above, also make sure you
have a password in /etc/smbpasswd smbpasswd user

Nick

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Armsby-Jr, John W wrote:

> I just installed redhat 5.1.  Samba is installed as a default.  The daemon
> is running.  My initial effort to map a win 95 pc to the Linux box resulted
> in an incorrect password error.
> 
> I know the login and password is correct.  Is there something obvious I can
> check?  Is there some issue with text vs encrypted passwords with the Linux
> daemon and win95? I have no idea what win95 sends to Linux.  I don't know if
> straight text vs encryption is an issue...  The password incidentally is all
> lower case with numbers...
> 
> John
> 
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