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From: Toby Darling <tobyd@caldera.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: W2k passwords and VFS
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:08:57 +0000
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> 
> MORE trouble... - this time, I'm trying to connect a w2k advanced server
> admin account to a SCO unix host running VisionFS2.01.
> 
> I cannot get the password verified.  I have a unix account of "admin", a
> windows account of "admin", I have since stopped and started the VFS
> server - both passwords ARE set the same.
> 
> Is there a similar issue as with win'98 here? ( registry hack:
> "EnablePlainTextPassword" ?? )

Start->AdminTools->LocalSecurityPolicy 
LocalPolicies->SecurityOptions->SendUnencrypted...

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