In article <+KfGEvPi1xA$Ewz1@worsdall.demon.co.uk>, usenet@wizdom.org.uk
says...
> Hi All,
>
> Today I had a little break through in trying to get our XP laptops to
> access the shares samba serves.
>
> It was on a laptop where I had done lots of other fiddles, to the point
> where the laptop was allowed to browse the workgroup HINWICK (finally)
> but it would not see our samba server and even forcing a connection
> would not work.
>
> But then I wondered why there has nothing about plain passwords in XP
> mentioned, so I had a look and there was 3 entries for
> enableplaintextpassword all set to 0.
>
> So I changed all 3 entries to 1 and restarted the laptop.
>
> Blimey, when I browsed the workgroup HINWICK there was the samba
> server!!!
>
> So I logged of the laptop as Administrator and logged back on as guest,
> tried to browse the workgroup HINWICK and was told I did not have
> permission etc rubbish useless XP error comment that is worth rambling
> on and on cos MS really annoyed me today.
>
> I guess that the fiddles I did to the user Administrator did not carry
> over to the user guest. I checked the reg and the 3
> enableplaintextpassword entries where still 1.
>
> Any comments on why this all happened?
>
> M.
>

See http://samba.netfirms.com/faq.htm for details on the plaintext
password misconceptions,there are 2 faq regarding this. Then go the
homepage and do some reading for properly setting up samba.
www.samba.netfirms.com

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Regards,
Mark
Samba Setup Guide
www.samba.netfirms.com