On Fri, 30 May 2003, dan kador wrote: > It is my understanding that roving profiles cannot be implemented > without using encrypted passwords. It is also my understanding that > encrypted passwords cannot be implemented without pointing smb.conf to a > windows password server.
Where did you get that understanding? It is not correct. 1) You do not need encrypted passwords for roaming profile support on MS Windows 9x/Me (so long as plain text passwords support is enabled. 2) Roaming profiles with MS Windows NT/200x/XP generally involves domain logon support and that requires domain membership. Domain membership requires encrypted passwords. 3) Samba does it's own encrypted password support Suggest you read: http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf > I'm trying to set up a samba server on a Linux (RedHat 7.3) to act as a > PDC and a provider for roving profiles - when I do things with cleartext > (encryption off), I can connect to drives and such fine from Windows > 2000 using the typical "net use \\server\share /user:myuser". However, > when I connect to the domain, it will not automatically load my profile. > I'm thinking it's because of the password encryption, but perhaps I'm > wrong. You need to get the Windows client to join the domain. That does require MS encrypted passwords support. > > If anybody can help, I'd be very appreciative! Thanks so much. Oh? No worries. - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
