Samba Changes

This is the announcement, posted to msu.cps.announce earlier this year explaining the changes made to our samba (SMB) server.

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Jay F Kusler <kusler@cse.msu.edu>                   at Michigan State University

Newsgroups: msu.cps.announce

On Sunday May 23rd the CSE department's SMB (Windows network file
service) server (samba) will begin using NT-style encrypted passwords.
For frequent users of this service, this change will be transparent.
For non-users or infrequent users this could cause an inability to
authenticate against the SMB server (and *ONLY* the SMB server --
normal Unix authentication will remain unchanged).  Users who have
problems authenticating to the SMB server after this date (ie. May
23rd) will need to change their password on a CSE instructional Unix
system (arctic, or pacific, for example) using the standard Unix
'passwd' command.  This command will update your SMB (NT-style)
encrypted password and your Unix password.  Thereafter you should be
able to login as before to either system with the same password.
Problems should be reported to manager@cse.msu.edu.  Thank you for
your patience as we make this change.

// CSE System Managers

manager@cse.msu.edu