Re: Samba on 7.1 not working :(

[Matt Doughty <mdoughty@example.com>]

Are we talking a home network here? I'm a bit confused as to why anyone would 
want to disable encrypted passwords. Its much easier, and more secure(albeit 
only slightly) to enable encrypted passwords, and just maintain the smbpasswd 
file.  I don't see as it is much less work to patch your boxen to send plain 
text passwords over the wire, but maybe that is just me. In the case where you 
have a domain controller it is even easier to passoff the password requests 
to the PDC, and boom it is both automatic, and more secure.  I stay as far 
away from windows as I can these days, but the samba registry hacks need to go 
off to a corner, and die.....

//Matt

ps. you also shouldn't use any M$ operating system that uses LANMAN hashes
for authentication(Win95) in a production environment.