So I just recently upgraded an old server from etch to lenny, that was hosting some files on a samba share for an ultra old Windows 98 machine. Anyways, upgrade went fine, but I ran into a problem authenticating the windows 98 machine to the samba share after the upgrade. Getting the old IPC$ invalid password deal. After stubling around with samaba for a while I found that at some point between the two releases they have disabled lanman authentication as it's rather unsecure and such. And it turns out that is fine, as long as you don't have any windows machines older than XP. So I had to enabled laman authentication in the samba config file by adding the line lanman auth = yes to my /etc/samba/smb.conf file. That did the trick, and now the ancient windows 98 machine can login to the file server again.

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