Windows XP and Samba 2.2.6

On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 09:00, Ted Gould wrote:
>
> > I just migrated my wifes computer to Win XP and now she can't print to a
> > samba share printer or use the drive shares on the machine. I upgraded to
> > Samba 2.2.6 to fix the problem but I have been unable to find good
> > documentation on what I need to do to make her machine talk to the printer
> > or the drive shares. how much different are the config files between 2.0.x
> > and 2.2? A little direction would be helpful.
>
> I likely senario is that her new installation is trying to use encrypted
> passwords that Samba can't handle. I believe that there are registry
> mods that turn off encrypted passwords in windows. Atleast that was a
> problem Samba had a while ago...
>
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Samba has had encrypted passwords for as long as I have ever used it. It
requires a line in smb.conf:

encrypted passwords = yes

much easier than editing registry on Windows users to turn off encrypted
passwords

Craig