RE: [WinMac] NT4 and Passwords for Macintosh Clients

Pierce, Ian(PierceI[at]stripes.osd.mil)
Wed, 9 Sep 1998 10:09:00 -0400

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Create a shared Macintosh volume on your NT server. When NT makes this, it
calls it by default "Microsoft UAM Volume." If you look inside this
"Microsoft UAM Volume" you will see an "AppleShare Folder" which contains a
thing called "MS UAM" and ReadMe file, which basically explains that you
take the MS UAM and put it into the AppleShare folder in the System folder
of the macs, and then you can force the mac cllients to connect using
Microsoft authentication.

I don't feel like that was very lucid; in fact Microsoft's ReadMe might even
be clearer...

Anyway that enables "Microsoft Enctyption" of the passwords, whatever that
is.

To require Mac users to use this Microsoft Encryption, go to your NT server,
to Control Panel/MacFile/Attributes and check the "require Microsoft
Authentication" box.

ian

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brooks Peters [mailto:peters@dt.navy.mil]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 1998 9:32 AM
>To: The Windows-MacOS cooperation list
>Subject: [WinMac] NT4 and Passwords for Macintosh Clients
>
>
>Our business systems group is installing NT servers to support
>corporate
>e-mail (Exchange) and file serving. In order to support the
>mobility of
>many users, space on a file server has been allocated for each
>user to hold
>their Personal Address Book and Personal Store (local mail folders).
>
>All is well and good for PC clients, but Macintosh clients
>have been told
>that passwords sent during Macintosh-to-NT authentication are sent in
>clear-text. Since this is unacceptable, the support folks are
>not enabling
>file server access for Macintosh clients.
>
>Is this explanation correct? Does the NT server perform authentication
>using clear-text passwords within AppleShare service? If so,
>are there any
>simple methods to improve this situation that would have minimal client
>impacts?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Brooks Peters
>
>
>
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