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Seems to help SAMBA too
Authored by: bciesq on Nov 16, '03 05:59:51AM
Updating your password has the ancillary benefit of ironing out a few bugs in SMB. I came across the following at

http://www.macwindows.com/panther.html#reader

November 3, 2003

Darrell Kienzle has a fix based on the NetInfo Manager:

I read your discussion of problems with access to SMB shares in Panther. Here's something I discovered when working with one of the betas.

Fire up NetInfo Manager and browse to /users/yourname/passwd. The passwd _should_ be "******". This is a representation of a shadow password (a feature added in Panther). If you see something like "YW3273hhs," that's a standard hashed Unix passwd (which Jaguar used).

If you have a hashed passwd, use System Preferences to change your password (you can give it the same value it used to be). Reload NetInfo Manager and you'll see it has changed to "******"

I found that this helped enormously when trying to connect to Windows and SAMBA shares.

I can verify that updating my login password fixed a problem with my PowerBook failing to access shares at work on a Windows NT domain. FWIW, I connect via the cmd-k method (aka "connect to server") rather than browsing the "Network" entry in the sidebar as I like my servers showing up on the desktop as the good lord intended.

Sorry if this rambled too far off topic.

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