[Samba] FW: desperate help needed - Samba and security = share

TAKAHASHI Motonobu monyo at monyo.com
Tue Jan 27 09:43:48 MST 2015


From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [Samba] FW: desperate help needed - Samba and security = share
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 09:37:35 +0000

> All of my servers run the same type of setup and it's all based 
> around "security = share". Why is this so universally declared as bad??
> 
> I know when I built some F16 servers it said that "security = share" was 
> depreciated but it still let me use it. Now with F20 it just refuses.

"security = share" is based on Windows 9x architecture and cannot support
modern protocols such as SMB2 or later and security features. This is why 
it became depreciated and was removed.

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TAKAHASHI Motonobu <monyo at monyo.com> / @damemonyo 
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