[NTLUG:Discuss] Win98 not talking to Linux Box

[Juliet Blosser]

> > When I put my password in it tells me it's no good so I tryed root's
> > password and that won't work either. What is different in 98 as
> > far as this goes?
> 
> At the last NTLUG meeting about Samba someone said (IIRC) that
> something about "plaintext passwords" had changed between 95 and
> 98.  I don't recall what the solution was (I'm not really interested
> in Windoze so I was only half awake and not listening carefully)...
> But I'm sure someone will tell you.  Try looking for a Windoze
> "plaintext passwords" widget on some control panel or other.
> Whatever it is set to now...flip it!

Actually, what you'll want to look for is options for 'encrypted
password' or 'Send password encrypted'.  I'm sure someone will
tell you exactly where to push this button, but MSWin98 does try
to send passwords encrypted by default in many more places than
95.  What you want to do is get rid of any places where it's 
sending the password encrypted, since Linux expects it in
plain text.  Alternatively, you can set up Linux to expect an
encrypted password, which is more complicated.

Check the archives on this.