[Samba] server max protocol appropriate values

James lingpanda101 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 6 10:28:55 MST 2015


OK. Now I'm really confused. I was not aware of two 'testparm' commands.
Running 'testparm -v' shows correct default values.  So whats the
difference?


On 3/6/2015 12:20 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 06/03/15 17:05, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
>> Am 06.03.2015 um 14:56 schrieb Rowland Penny:
>>>>  From 'samba-tool testparm -v' :
>>>>
>>>> server max protocol = NT1
>>>>
>>>> BUT 'man smb.conf' says this :
>>>>
>>>> Default: server max protocol = SMB3
>>>>
>>>> OK, one of these is wrong, but which ???
>> If you run 4.1 or later, then SMB3 is the default.
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 06.03.2015 um 16:30 schrieb James:
>>> Using Wireshark I see the protocol used as SMB2.  Using a Windows
>>> workstation I tested by navigating to files and folders on my member
>>> server or to my sysvol folder on a DC.
>> Win7 doesn't speak SMB3.
>>
>> SMB 2.0 was introduced by Vista/2008
>> SMB 2.1 by Win7/2008R2
>> SMB 2.2 aka 3.0 by Win8/2012
>> SMB 3.02 by 8.1/2012R2
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marc
>
> OK, so I sorted my problem, it was the old 'testparm -v' and
> 'samba-tool testparm -v' giving different results problem, the man
> page is correct.
>
> Sorry for the noise :-)
>
> Rowland

-- 
-James



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