[Samba] [Solved] Fedora 25 Samba and XP-SP3

[Mike Brown]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 01:53:10PM +1200, Andrew Bartlett via samba wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-06-11 at 20:08 -0500, Mike Brown via samba wrote:
> > Yes, I know, XP-SP3 is very old.????It works for what I need it for.????I
> > have
> > some programs that will never be updated for Win 7.
> > 
> > Note that XP-SP3 and Fedora 14 work together just fine, so I'm
> > guessing that
> > a newer version of Samba is what is keeping me from logging in from
> > XP.
> > But, I do not know what to put in the smb.conf file to allow XP to
> > mount
> > a share.
> 
> Try configuring XP to use NTLMv2 (ideally), or set 'ntlm auth = yes' if
> you really can't set that for some reason (it is a security policy
> setting on the client, in local security policies).

Damn firewall.  By default, Samba isn't allowed to connect.  Found it by
using wireshark to look at the packets and that gave me the clue.

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