Using Samba With Windows Nt 4.0 And Windows 2000 - Red Hat LINUX 7.2 - OFFICIAL LINUX CUSTOMIZATION GUIDE Manual

Section 11.4:Using Samba with Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 117
Figure 11–1 SMB Browser in Nautilus
If the SMB share you are connecting to requires a user name and password combination, you must
specify them in the bar using the following syntax (replace user, password, servername,
Location:
and sharename with the appropriate values:
smb:// user : password @ servername/sharename/
11.4 Using Samba with Windows NT 4.0 and
Windows 2000
The Microsoft SMB Protocol originally used plaintext passwords. However, Windows 2000 and Win-
dows NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3 or higher require encrypted Samba passwords. To use Samba be-
tween a Red Hat Linux system and a system with Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3
or higher, you can either edit your Windows registry to use plaintext passwords or configure Samba
on your Linux system to use encrypted passwords. If you choose to modify your registry, you must
do so for all your Windows NT or 2000 machines — this is risky and may cause further conflicts.
To configure Samba on your Red Hat Linux system to use encrypted passwords, follow these steps:
1. Create a separate password file for Samba. To create one based on your existing /etc/passwd
file, at a shell prompt, type the following command: