"Malke" <notreally@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:eVhVWxKwFHA.2132@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> larry wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Someone who is more familiar with that particular program may have a
> better answer for you, but I believe the problem isn't with the
> password encryption (or not completely anyway) but rather with the fact
> that XP Home authenticates as Guest and Guest is disabled by default in
> most *nix and Samba setups.
>
> Check with SCO tech support for how best to handle this if you don't
> have a Unix wizard on staff.
>
> Malke
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VisionFS has some shares configured for Guest. In particluar, the printer is
owned by the nix box and should have guest access. Does XP try to be Guest
even if a user account has been setup, with or without passwords as I've
tried it both ways?

I'm supposed to be the Unix wizard here though we're moving to Linux
shortly. Then I'll have to solve the same problems for Samba.

Thanks for you help.