[Samba] Windows-8 & SMB encryption

[Nagendra sharma]

> Hi
> Nagendra here I have existing a samba-3 installation which has a smb
> encrypt as mandatory

>> With samba 3 you mean exactly what?

>>> Thanks for that response, this is the exact information that I was
looking for. I meant Samba-3.X (Samba-3.5 or Samba-3.6).

Thanks & Regards
Nagendra


On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 03:14:06PM +0530, Nagendra sharma wrote:
> > Hi
> > Nagendra here I have existing a samba-3 installation which has a smb
> > encrypt as mandatory
>
> With samba 3 you mean exactly what? Windows 8 uses a
> different encryption scheme than what was supported in
> Samba before Samba 4.2. So unless you can upgrade to Samba
> 4.2.2, you will not be able to use Windows 8 encryption,
> sorry for that. If you can not upgrade Samba, you might
> contact Microsoft if they can change Windows 8 to support
> the old Samba way to do encryption.
>
> With best regards,
>
> Volker Lendecke
>
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