[Samba] Change of behavior samba 3.6 and 4.5

[Rowland Penny]

On Sun, 6 May 2018 19:40:01 +0200
john doe via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 5/6/2018 1:23 PM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Thanks Rowland, for confirming that for you 'net view 
> \\<SAMBA-4-SERVER>' works without having to first enter credentials.
> 
> > Might help if you posted the smb.conf from 'SAMBA-4-SERVER' (and
> > 'SAMBA-3-SERVER, if it is different)
> > 
> 
> For testing purposes I used the smb.conf from the working samba 3.X 
> server and still getting the same error.
> Any other ideas?
> 

Yes, post the smb.conf, I (and anybody else) will not have a clue how
you are running Samba unless you do. Just because it worked with 3.6.x
doesn't mean it will work with 4.5.x

Rowland