RE: LDAP and NT authentication

[Aaron Aw <aaron@sjug.org>]

So it will be fine if all systems use encrypted passwords. should there be
any reason to use plaintext in the first place?

so Samba should work fine if you use either cleartext or encrypted right?
thanks for the info.


regards,
Aaron AW Soon-Aun
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Chris Tooley wrote:

> You can run the virtual redirector update on any version of Windows 95 to
> force it to use encrypted passwords.  This even works on the original
> version of Windows that came on 3.5" floppy disks, so it should  be
> compatible.  I can send the vredir.exe to anyone that needs it.  It's a
> fairly simple thing to set up.  It also updates some of your tcp/ip settings
> to do better ip transmissions.
> 
> Samba unfortunately will not use both plaintext AND encrypted passwords as
> NT does.  This means that even if you are using LDAP Authentication you
> can't have both.  The best of all solutions is to use Encrypted passwords on
> all machines, but it is possible to make every single version of Windows,
> including NT Server talk in plain text.
> 
> Chris Tooley
> Software Specialist
> Joslyn Art Museum
> 2200 Dodge St
> Omaha, NE  68102
> (402)342-3300 ext 247
> (402)342-0091 fax
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Aaron Aw
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 10:09 AM
> To: Tod Thomas
> Cc: Turbo Fredriksson; Dustin Sallings; openldap-general@OpenLDAP.org
> Subject: Re: LDAP and NT authentication
> 
> 
> Hi! are you using win95 encrypted password? last I heard was that win95
> only supports cleartext pwd.
> 
> 
> regards,
> Aaron AW Soon-Aun
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> 
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Tod Thomas wrote:
> 
> > FYI,
> >
> > I'm using Samba Version 2.0.4b running on Solaris 2.6 going against it
> with WinNT
> > service pack 4 using encrypted password and it works fine.
> >
> > Tod
> >
> > Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
> >
> > >  Win95 have clear text passwords which the other have not. So if you
> have a Win95
> > > machine on the network,
> > > you have to disable encrypted passwords (and execute a .reg to disable
> it on
> > > Win98/WinNT). I don't know if there is a way around that, but according
> to the
> > > Samba site, the problem is still there...
> > >
> >
>