[Samba] Which log file?

[Matthew Jurgens]

Just leaving a note in this thread that might help other people who find it:

I had some older clients at one point and I had to allow older levels of 
authentication (NTLMv1) as well as older levels of the SMB protocol using

ntlm auth = yes

On 10/09/2020 8:45 am, Andrew Bartlett via samba wrote:
> The other thing is NTLMv2, also required by default in modern Samba
> versions.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
> On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 15:39 -0700, Kris Lou via samba wrote:
>> I've found that some embedded devices have older CIFS clients, which
>> can
>> only talk over SMB1.  So, you can adjust your server to allow it, or
>> look
>> for another file transport.
>>
>> Kris Lou
>> klou at themusiclink.net
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 3:16 PM Jeremy Allison via samba <
>> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 02:35:28PM -0700, Peter Pollock via samba
>>> wrote:
>>>> I have two photocopiers.
>>>>
>>>> Both have the facility to can to a file on a file server via smb.
>>>>
>>>> Both configured identically.
>>>>
>>>> One can write to a samba share, the other cannot (same server,
>>>> same
>>> share)
>>>> I'm searching for a log somewhere that might show me why the
>>>> write is
>>>> failing but I cannot see anything.
>>>>
>>>> Which log file on my fileserver would show me if the server is
>>>> rejecting
>>>> the connection, please?
>>>  From the smb.conf man page:
>>>
>>> log file (G)
>>>
>>>             This option allows you to override the name of the Samba
>>> log
>>> file (also known as the debug file).
>>>
>>>             This option takes the standard substitutions, allowing
>>> you to
>>> have separate log files for each user or machine.
>>>
>>>             No default
>>>
>>>             Example: log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
>>>
>>> Set it as so, to get a separate log file for the
>>> incoming machine name.
>>>
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