<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Les Mikesell</b> <<a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 14:51, Arthur Pemberton wrote:<br>><br>> On 10/12/05, Tim <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>> On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 11:39 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
<br>> > Not really, I was more concerned about passwords. For some<br>> reason, I<br>> > assume them to be transimitted as clear text, correct me if<br>> I am<br>> > wrong. More importantly, how safe is samba on an untrusted
<br>> LAN?<br>><br>> They're only transmitted that way if you want them to<br>> be. Samba is<br>> under your control.<br><br>Yes, windows hasn't sent plaintext passwords without a registry change
<br>since some service pack in the mid-90's. A side effect is that you<br>now need to make a separate smbpasswd entry.<br><br>> Ok fair enough. Can I do Samba without a workgroup etc? (I have used<br>> samba, but only in the more general workgroup/domain/lan form)
<br><br>Sure - if you use share level security you can see the shares<br>without authenticating at all and only authenticate when you<br>connect. With user level you won't be able to browse the shares<br>unless you log in, but if you know the share name you can still
<br>map it and get the login/password prompt.</blockquote><div><br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--<br> Les Mikesell<br> <a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com
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