[Samba] Change of behavior samba 3.6 and 4.5
Rowland Penny
rpenny at samba.org
Sun May 6 11:23:25 UTC 2018
On Sun, 6 May 2018 12:51:33 +0200
john doe via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm in the process of replacing my samba server 3.6.x (Debian wheezy,
> stable) to samba 4.5.x (Debian stretch, stable).
>
> I'm facing one mageor opstacle:
>
> When I do "net view \\<SAMBA-3-SERVER>" a list of the available
> shares is displayed.
> But if I do the same command "net view <\\SAMBA-4-SERVER>" I get the
> following error:
>
> "System error 5 has occurred.
>
> Access is denied."
>
> If I enter the username/password when prompted everything is working
> as expected.
>
> Obviously, there has been some mageor changes between samba 3.x and
> samba 4.x but I can't seam to find an explanation for this behavior.
>
> Is there a way to get the samba 3.x behavior on samba 4.x?
>
> In other words: why do I need to enter credentials prior to be able
> to "net view" the available shares.
>
You don't, or at least, it works for me.
Might help if you posted the smb.conf from 'SAMBA-4-SERVER' (and
'SAMBA-3-SERVER, if it is different)
Rowland
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