[Samba] some questions to samba and W7 and W10

[Rowland penny]

On 03/04/16 21:39, Achim Klausmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i got some clients (WINDOWS7 and WINDOWS10) to connect to samba shares.
>
> OS is openSUSE 12.2; 13.1; 42.1
> Samba-Version: 3.6.7; 4.1.22; 4.2.4
> smb.conf is shown below.
>
> The samba setup is a workgroup setup, the W7-clients
> are set up to the workgroup 'workgroup'.
> No further changes are made to the W7-clients.
>
> samba setup:
> groupadd workgroup
> chgrp -R workgroup /srv/samba
> chmod -R 770 /srv/samba
> chmod g+s /srv/samba
> for ((i=1;i<21;i++));do useradd -g workgroup -p "" user$i;done
> for ((i=1;i<21;i++));do pdbedit -c '[NX ]' -u user$i;done
>
> Connecting W7 to the samba shares is working,
> but W10 won't connect to the shares.
> net use y: \\192.168.0.98\share1 /USER:user1
> net use z: \\192.168.0.98\dump /USER:user1
>
> This won't work on W10-clients.
>
> First question:
> Man pages:
> client max protocol (G)
> The value of the parameter (a string) is the highest protocol
> level that will be supported by the client.
>
> Are here meant WINDOWS-clients or to samba-clients?
>
> Second question:
> How can connect to the shares with 'net use' command?
> Which options are realy necessary?
>
> smb.conf:
> [global]
>     security = USER
>     server string = Samba Server
>     workgroup = WORKGROUP
>     os level = 66
>     guest ok = no
>     null passwords = yes
>     unix password sync = yes
>     passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>     passdb expand explicit = no
>     passdb backend = tdbsam
>     lanman auth = yes
>     client lanman auth = yes
>     client plaintext auth = yes
>     smb encrypt = no
>     interfaces = eth* lo
>     bind interfaces only = yes
>         smb ports = 139
>
>     unix extensions = no
>     host msdfs = no
>
>     log level = 2
>     log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log.%U
>
>     time server = yes
>     local master = yes
>
>     domain master = yes
>     preferred master = yes
>
>     wins support = yes
>     name resolve order = wins lmhosts host bcast
>     dns proxy = no
>     wins proxy = no
>
>     load printers = yes
>     printing = cups
>     printer name = cups
>     printcap name = cups
>     printcap cache time = 750
>     lpq cache time = 0
>     cups options = raw
>     show add printer wizard = no
>
> # entry for SAMBA 4 in openSUSE 42.1
> # this is needed for a special softare
>     acl allow execute always = yes
>
> # restrict protocol for W7, W8, W10 ?
>     max protocol = SMB2
>
> [homes]
>     comment = Home Directories
>     valid users = %S, %D%w%S
>     browseable = No
>     read only = No
>     inherit acls = Yes
>
> [printers]
>     comment = All Printers
>     path = /var/tmp
>     printable = Yes
>     create mask = 0600
>     browseable = No
>     valid users = +workgroup
>     write list = +workgroup
>     use client driver = yes
>     read only = yes
>
> [share1]
>     path = /srv/samba
>     guest ok = no
>     valid users = +workgroup
>     browseable = yes
>     writeable = yes
>     force group = workgroup
>     create mask = 740
>     directory mask = 750
>     force create mode = 020
>     force directory mode = 020
>     dos filemode = yes
>     dos filetimes = yes
>     dos filetime resolution = yes
>     hide dot files = yes
>     hide files = /lost+found/
>     nt acl support = no
>     store dos attributes = yes
>     map archive = no
>     strict locking = yes
>     oplocks = no
>     level2 oplocks = no
>     use sendfile = no
>     msdfs root = no
>     change notify = yes
> [dump]
>     copy = share1
>     path =/u01/app/oracle/admin/XE/dpdump
>     valid users = +dba
>     force group = dba
>
> This setup is working since openSUSE 11.4 and WINDOWS XP.
>
> Best regards
> A. Klausmann
>
>
>

Probably the same reason that has been popping up recently, win10 will 
not connect to a NT style domain (yes I know you aren't running a 
domain) unless you set 'max protocol = NT1' in smb.conf and restart Samba.

Rowland