Samba and XP SP2 no love

[Tim]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:06 -0400, plabonte at gmail.com wrote:

> you have to set the Local Security Policy of the Windows XP box to
> "Send Unencrypted Passwords to Third Party SMB servers" that will
> work. It does for me on SAMBA 3

Why do you want to expose your passwords to everything on the net, by
sending them unencrypted?  Anything on your same sub-net (trojans,
malicious users, etc.) can take advantage of you.  If you were using
wireless networking, it'd be even stupider to do.

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