Re: [WinMac] NT4 and Passwords for Macintosh Clients

Curtis Wilcox(cwcx[at]uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 10:27:08 -0400

At 09:32 AM 9/9/98 -0400, Brooks Peters wrote:
>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?

It is correct at least for dialin authentication but there's hope. As
explained at this page:
<http://valleynet.on.ca/~aa158/macras.html#mac>
Apple Remote Access 3.1, included in 8.5 will support MS-CHAP, the standard
authentication protocol for NT. If that won't work for you there are links
at that page to third party products for PPP which inlude the necessary
authentication method.

If I remember correctly AppleShare passwords are in clear text if *unless*
you use Microsoft's UAM which is included in the Mac share volume
automatically created when SFM is installed on an NT server.

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Curtis Wilcox     cwcx@uhura.cc.rochester.edu
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