Off topic- Map network drive in Win 7 to Sco Unix

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011, Seth wrote:
>Please forgive my ignorance. Looked online, tried everything I can think of:
>
>Win 7 front end can't access legacy SCO Unix  box. User name and Passwords
>get rejected. Tried to find an equivelant of "plaintextpasswords" as a
>registry entry but no luck. Interesting to me is that Win XP running in a
>virtual pc can access both Unix and Redhat Linux through Samba, but Win 7
>can't. Would also love to be able to run Termlite natively in Win 7 but
>that is probably pushing it.

Using plain text password with Samba has been a Very Bad Idea(TM)
for years.  Create a smb.passwd entries for Samba using the
'smbpasswd -a username' command.  On current versions of Samba,
this require setting 'passdb backend = smbpasswd' in smb.conf.

What version of Samba is running on the SCO box?  I suspect it's
old, and there may well be problems with Win7.

There are also changes necessary to Win7 to get it use the long
established "Map Network Drive".  I have some information and
files on this here:

	http://www.celestial.com/support/Documentation/samba/

Bill
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