See http://help.isu.edu/disppage.php?doc_id=691&cat_id=26 to enable plain text passwords in XP Home.

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"larry" <omega@portDELETEal.ca> wrote in message news:%23MIPrCKwFHA.3400@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
> Our office LAN has an SCO Unix (Openserver 5) box running VisionFS, their
> smb server. We have a Windows NT4 box and a Windows 98 box that can access
> the Unix box. Because of encryption compatibility problems, both of those
> are configured to use plain text passwords. After learning how to change the
> registry by hand I discovered that the Win98 disk even has some utilities to
> do this.
>
> We recently added a Windows XP Home Edition SP2 box to this mix. It can't
> access the VisionFS server. The error message is:
> Workgroup:
> \\<unix box name> is not accessible. You might not have permission to use
> this network resource. Contact the administrator of this server to find out
> if you have access permission.
>
> The account is not authorized to log in from this station.
>
> I suspect that the problem can be corrected by having the XP box send
> plaintext passwords but I don't know enough about XP to know where to find
> this setting. And I ain't touching the registry until I know what I'm doing.
> I'm not assuming the entries would be the same as for 98 or NT.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Larry
>
> ps. Is there a difference between the news.microsoft.com and the
> msnews.microsoft.com news servers?
>
>
>
>
>

"Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@mvps.org> wrote in message
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See http://help.isu.edu/disppage.php?doc_id=691&cat_id=26 to enable plain
text passwords in XP Home.

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Display\Security
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Thanks. That seemed to do the trick. Silly me, I was looking at the
microsoft site for answers.

Larry

That article was just one of the first Google hits that came up. Searching for "plain text passwords" at www.microsoft.com returns this as the third item in the search results.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;244627

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"larry" <omega@portDELETEal.ca> wrote in message news:ujtx5lvwFHA.1256@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
> "Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:OEvw5ORwFHA.3756@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> See http://help.isu.edu/disppage.php?doc_id=691&cat_id=26 to enable plain
> text passwords in XP Home.
>
> --
> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
> Display\Security
> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> http://www.dougknox.com
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> Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
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> Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> Unsolicited e-mail is not answered
>
> Thanks. That seemed to do the trick. Silly me, I was looking at the
> microsoft site for answers.
>
> Larry
>
>
>
>
>

Doug Knox MS-MVP wrote:

> That article was just one of the first Google hits that came up.
> Searching for "plain text passwords" at www.microsoft.com returns this as
> the third item in the search results.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;244627
>

I probably saw that article. It's for Windows 2000. I wouldn't assume that
any of it applies to XP, though I saw a similar article for XP Pro. I tried
to find the Security Settings in the Administrative Tools but couldn't find
them in Home Edition.

I also found articles for Win98, and Win95, but not XP Home.

I found somethings with Google but nothing as good as you pointed me to.
Thanks.

Larry

Hi Larry,

You didn't mention you were using XP Home, so that article isn't much help. This should take care of it for you.

http://help.isu.edu/disppage.php?doc_id=691&cat_id=26

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"larry" <foo@foo.foo> wrote in message news:ewQRawywFHA.3708@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Doug Knox MS-MVP wrote:
>
>> That article was just one of the first Google hits that came up.
>> Searching for "plain text passwords" at www.microsoft.com returns this as
>> the third item in the search results.
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;244627
>>
>
> I probably saw that article. It's for Windows 2000. I wouldn't assume that
> any of it applies to XP, though I saw a similar article for XP Pro. I tried
> to find the Security Settings in the Administrative Tools but couldn't find
> them in Home Edition.
>
> I also found articles for Win98, and Win95, but not XP Home.
>
> I found somethings with Google but nothing as good as you pointed me to.
> Thanks.
>
> Larry
>
>