Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:29:45 -0600 From: Tony Wells <awells@journalstar.com> To: "Michael P. Neuman" <neubyneu@twcny.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD password problem. Message-ID: <38623FE9.64EFAEAC@journalstar.com> References: <000701bf4d57$553826a0$0400a8c0@smb-4.cmsnet.net>
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It's been awhile since I monkeyed with samba, but as I remember you need to use encrypted passwords unless you fiddle with the configuration on your Windows machines. That one stumped me for awhile. Check out the documentation in /usr/local/share/doc/samba on your FreeBSD machine, especially the file ENCRYPTION.txt to see how to do this. > "Michael P. Neuman" wrote: > > Hello. I'm running FreeBSD-3.3-RELEASE with the latest release of > Samba. I have a Windows NT 4.0 Workstation on my Network and want it > to join the samba domain. The samba docs say to add a user to the > unix password database called workstation_name$. The problem is > FreeBSD doesn't accept the $ at the end of the user name. How can I > go about fixing this problem so that I can add the user > wordstation_name$ . Any help would be appreciated. thanks > --- > MPN > -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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