Re: [SLUG] Implementation - encrypted passwords:explaine the mystery

From: patrick grantham (pwgrant@cssi-fl.com)
Date: Sat Aug 17 2002 - 01:22:19 EDT


I have never in three years been able to get a winbox and a linux samba to
talk successfully using encrypted passwords; what's the secret? If the
sites I have set up the passwords are only local, but it bugs me that I have
not been able to do this. Any advice?

On Saturday 17 August 2002 12:27 am, you wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:09:42PM -0400, Jason Pratt wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > So my question is, I would like to take a spare 450 that we have in
> > our office
> > and install Red Hat and configure that as a server to run with the
> > existing 4 NT4 servers in my office. How hard would that be? This is a
> > test to show how simple and quickly this can be done. Also, one server
> > is running Exchange 5.5 another is running SQL. Is there anything equal
> > to Exchange on the Linux platform?
>
> Samba is the answer to running Linux in a Windows environment. Lots of
> docs and help exists. Be careful of encryption issues with passwords and
> such.
>
> I think Evolution is supposed to be Linux's answer to Exchange, but of
> course it's not an exact duplicate. I don't really know much about this
> area, but if you're running a server, something like
> sendmail/exim/postfix (or qmail-- hello, Martin) would be the way to go,
> I would think.
>
> Paul

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