Samba frustrations

[Tom H]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 09, 2010 08:24 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Christopher Chan
>> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> # You may wish to use password encryption. See the section on
>>>> # 'encrypt passwords' in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling.
>>>> encrypt passwords = no
>>>
>>> Not going to fly with anything above Windows 2000/NT 4
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Not even sure that it will fly with Win2k or NT4SP4...
>
> Hmm...I think some registry tweaking was necessary with XP but I cannot
> remember whether that was needed for W2K or NT4...or maybe I have mixed
> that up with something related to domain logons...been such a long time.

I remember, quite vaguely (!), that SP4 brought about ntlmv2 and the
encryption requirement but I could be misremembering.

Anyway, for the OP and his Win7 as you posted, encryption is required.