[plug] Samba as a PDC

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ben Jensz
> Sent: Saturday, 3 December 2005 9:57 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Samba as a PDC
> 
> There are two things, encrypted passwords if you're using 
> clients that don't support them (some Win 9x clients).
> 
> But there is also secure channel signing that 2K/XP/2K3 
> clients will want to use by default.  Search the registry for 
> "requiresignorseal" and set all instances of it to "0" 
> (zero), and see if that works.
> 
> 
> / Ben
> 
> 
> Timothy White wrote:
> 
> >
> >This hack, applies to all Windows computers, from 2000 up. 
> It is ONLY 
> >required if you DON'T want to use encrypted passwords. 
> (Windows 98 and 
> >ME had problems with encrypted passwords. I think the 
> easiest solution 
> >was to fix all 2000, and XP computers, rather than try and fix the 
> >other boxes!)

Only for Samba2. Samba3 understands encrypted SMB reliably since at
least 3.0.14...

HTH :S

CraigF.