samba shares across different os's

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:41:16 -0400
George via samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> The Dlink system is version 1.  The WD system is smb3 after the
> latest OS update.  The windows system has smb1 enabled.  I have had
> the Dlink system mounted to the windows system for years and it has
> been working fine.  Not sure how to tell what version of samba the
> shares are mounted.  

If the Dlink only uses SMBv1m then the shares on it will have to use
SMBv1.

> When I mount the Dlink to the Debian system it
> complains and says I need to use vers=1.0. But the WD system when
> mounted on the Debian system does not complain.  The WD device is
> running 4.3.11. 

SMBv3 support was added at 4.3.0, but there have been numerous updates
and CVE's since then, Samba latest is 4.20.0

> I'm not sure how I copied the files I think I used a
> cp -r  but forgot to use the -a option.  

If it is available, then rsync would have probably been better, but if
it isn't then 'cp -a' would have been better than 'cp -r' (see 'man
cp').

> I think the fix for the all
> of the folders being empty was doing a chown -r user *  This seemed
> to allow most folders to display there contents.  

If that worked, then the files had probably been transferred, but then
belonged to another user/group and you were not allowed to see them.

> When I mount the
> WD on the Debian system the owner/group is always root:root.  

That is fairly standard for a mount.

> I'm using the WD because it has been sitting around not used for a few
> years.  I'm not real happy with it because they use a non standard 64k
> pagesize.  Which means you have to compile your own programs that
> ware not on the device rather than just apt install.
> I just thought that I could remove the Dlink and use the WD.  It is a
> low power device that can be left on all the time.  Which allows me
> to access the files from any of my pcs's or laptops or phone or TV's.

If it works for you, then great, but it is still an elderly device and
if I were you, I would be looking on it as a 'stop gap' until I could
replace it with something newer, but it is totally your decision.

> 
> Sorry for posting on this forum.  It is the only one I get email from.

Not a problem really, but the thing is, samba-technical is meant for
discussing the 'internals' of Samba, problems like yours are best
discussed on the samba mailing list, so it might be an idea to register
for that next time ;-)

Rowland