Cleartext passwords disabled on OS X
When using AppleShare or AFP to access network resources and you disable “allow cleartext passwords” you are then unable to access network resources that use AFP because you have to leave cleartext passwords enabled. To Fix this problem simply type this command in at the termainal window:
rm ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
After this file is deleted reboot and you should have the option for cleartext again.
This is the problem I was getting which caused me to do some investigating. I would get a bad username and password error without it even trying to authenticate.
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