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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (2314)	9/17/2000 10:40:43 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) of 2615

Samba encrypt passwords are supposed to work with windows. The howto tells you to fix the dword in regedit as 0x01 if you WANT encrypted passwords in Windows but this must be a misnomer as the text is EnablePLainTextPassword and the default is encrypted for win98. Samba passwords can be different for each machine. They end up being the system passwords of each machine. You use the password and users of the remote machine. Of course smbclient is a kludge of a program. No way to get a partial paged directory listing.. not a smooth functionality. I have not tried the samba file system yet though. So I turned them off in Samba and win98 and then found out that shares would not allow a password length more than 8 in Windows. Was this the case with encrypt turned on? I forget. Anyway now it works. Samba has encrypt passwords commented out and one can see the windows directories in samba from the Linux box. A lot of roaring and screaming and much misinformation. By contrast it was easier to get Mosaic going in Linux but it is extremely flaky software. Lots of bugs and no support anymore. Deos not seem to see Java at all. Leaner and meaner than netscape but horrible fonts and resolution and many primitive ways. About ten changes in library locations and headers were necessary to get a compile. Still for all its primitive complexity and crashy X troubles I can still get Linux to run for weeks without a crash if left in server mode. I would not try that in WinNT. Many I know have bit the dust from Viruses, the blue screen of death or driver troubles. E. Charters NetLinux 24.43.25.216 mailto:echarters@primus.ca

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