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

[Mike Brown]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 09:28:20AM +0200, Reindl Harald via samba wrote:
> Am 12.06.2017 um 09:03 schrieb Mike Brown via samba:
>> 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
>
> no need for wireshark - normally one does simply "telnet host port" before 
> even consider debug deeper

Not sure I would have gotten the same info back.  Normally it is connection
refused when I do something like that.  The wireshark message was more
concise.  Either way, it was solved.

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