Bug 76533

Summary:	confusing Samba documentation
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Nick Mumbach <nmumbach>
Component:	samba	Assignee:	Jay Fenlason <fenlason>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	jfeeney
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Description Nick Mumbach 2002-10-22 21:57:54 UTC

Description of Problem: confusion in configuration guide

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Red Hat 8.0


How Reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. read configuration guide
2. 
3. 

Actual Results: confusion


Expected Results: clarity


Additional Information:

Comment 1 Nick Mumbach 2002-10-22 22:10:43 UTC

rhl-cg-en-8.0\s1-samba-configuring.html states (under Samba Passwords)
'In Red Hat Linux 8.0 encrypted passwords are enabled by default ...' the next
paragraph then states ' ... you can ... either edit your Windows registry to use
plaintext passwords, or configure Samba on your Linux system to use encrypted
passwords.

Are they encrypted by default, or not?  It seems no matter which way I try to
set it up, I can see in Network Neighborhood (but not access) my Samba share
from a W95B station. It pops up a window asking for my PW, listing the resource
as \\NICK-HOME-RH\IPC$ (my Red Hat system is Nick-Home-RH).  Is character case
of concern here?

Comment 2 Jay Fenlason 2004-11-16 21:39:04 UTC

Documentation is much improved in samba-3.0.