It seems there was a change in the Samba package between Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04.  I was getting an error while trying to connect to some Solaris shares.
$ smbclient -L //web -I 192.1.168.0 -U user%password
Server requested plaintext password but 'client use plaintext auth' is disabled

It seems that adding the following to your /etc/samba/smb.conf file solves the problem:

client plaintext auth = yes
client lanman auth = yes


It took awhile to realize that just setting plaintext auth to true wasn’t enough. lanman auth overrides it. Should have read the man page more closely, I guess.

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