[Samba] Samba client doesn't work SMB2 with MAC 0S 10.9.5

[Tompkins, Michael]

Jeremy, we have implemented your updates for to support SMB2 in both 3.6.5 and 4.0.7. That is working fine for both, with the exception of MAC OS 10.9..5 servers. There is a lot of discussion on the web about the problems, and most people talk about a workaround to dummy down to SMB1(NT1), which really is not a desirable option, especially for FIPS support. Was there a specific fix to so the smbclient and the MAC OS 10.9.5 server work together?  That's the information we are looking for.

Regards,
- Mike
 
                           


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:jra at samba.org] 
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 3:13 PM
To: Tompkins, Michael
Cc: Ralph Böhme; samba at lists.samba.org; USA Xerox Samba
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba client doesn't work SMB2 with MAC 0S 10.9.5

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 05:29:44PM +0000, Tompkins, Michael wrote:
> It is when our smbclient tries to connect to a MAC OS 10.9.5 samba server ?
> It seems they now have implemented their own SMB2 stack, in 10.9 which 
> does not play well with Microsoft’s implementation. The current 
> workaround is only to use SMB1 which is slow and has security issues. 
> In 4.0.7 we can set client max protocol to NT1, but in 3.6.5 client, it does not support client max protocol.

Mike, I fixed this for you for 4.1.x, creating the infrastructure layer to allow the unchanged smbclient code to use SMB2/2 under the covers.

In order to get a back port to 3.6.x, this is when Xerox needs to pay a contractor I'm afraid (or do the engineering work yourself, which I'll be happy to help with :-).

There are limits to what can be supported for free from the Team, and this is over that limit, sorry.

Jeremy.