From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 23 7:25:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.lee.net (trinity.lee.net [208.229.121.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DFF155F9 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 07:25:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from awells@journalstar.com) Received: from journalstar.com (leepcB-063.sub-b.lee.net [208.205.125.63]) by trinity.lee.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA29049; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:25:18 -0600 Message-ID: <38623FE9.64EFAEAC@journalstar.com> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:29:45 -0600 From: Tony Wells X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael P. Neuman" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD password problem. References: <000701bf4d57$553826a0$0400a8c0@smb-4.cmsnet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It's been awhile since I monkeyed with samba, but as I remember you need to use encrypted passwords unless you fiddle with the configuration on your Windows machines. That one stumped me for awhile. Check out the documentation in /usr/local/share/doc/samba on your FreeBSD machine, especially the file ENCRYPTION.txt to see how to do this. > "Michael P. Neuman" wrote: > > Hello. I'm running FreeBSD-3.3-RELEASE with the latest release of > Samba. I have a Windows NT 4.0 Workstation on my Network and want it > to join the samba domain. The samba docs say to add a user to the > unix password database called workstation_name$. 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