[Samba] Every time I install -- same problem

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:14 AM, Ted Hilts wrote:
>   1. Every time I install SAMBA and its components I  get "Server
> requested plaintext password but 'client plaintext auth' is disabled". I
> can't bring up any kind of a samba session. Also, I get 2 other error
> messages noted below. One is about lp_bool and the other after I provide
> my password. I am running on Ubuntu LUCID.  In the smb file there seems
> to be a lot of PAM lines -- I don't know if that is significant to what
> appears to be a password type conflict between this problematic computer
> and the other computers which are also Ubuntu. I don't use encryption on
> the computers just text for passwords and so I guess the problem is just
> that but I cannot get samba to behave even when the Samba GUI says there
> is no encryption -- the error says just the opposite.

Windows XP and above do not allow plain text passwords by default. 
That's the reason for the first error I read your problem correctly.

Try setting 'encrypt passwords = true' and see if the first error goes away.