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Re: Samba and M$ 98



On 31-May-98 guy keren wrote:

>  On Sat, 30 May 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:
> > truth is I actually need the passwords as served
> > from NIS. fact is that without that registry "patch" it just won't login,
> > and that was the solution givven on Samba's homesite.
>  
>  i'd have to second that. the registry editing seemed to be a simple
>  solution to this problem (thought i still have a different problem having
>  to do with win95's inability to login to a network server as a user other
>  then that which logged into that win95 box - anyone knows of a
>  solution/workaround for this?).

Samba can do mapping between SMB and Unix username spaces. If the number of 
users is not big, this could be a solution for you.

>  as long as one uses samba in a restricted environment, i wouldn't try a
>  solution that keeps several password files and has to sync them.

Yes, if you trust everyone who has physical access to your network. Otherwise,
plain text passwords sent over the link could be easily snooped.

Regards,

Evgeny

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