[Samba] SMB2 and X-plore

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 2021-07-14 at 14:51 +0200, Oleksandr Natalenko via samba wrote:

> Windows 10 is not really involved in this scheme.

Never said it was, just pointing out that Win10 no longer allows the
use of a guest share unless you modify the registry, but Samba still
allows guest access, just not from an unmodified win10 machine.
 
> 
> > From the log fragment posted it looks like the android client isn't
> > sending the proper data: 'Bad SMB2 signature for message'
> 
> Yes, probably. But as the x-plore devs didn't respond to this
> concern, I 
> started to look for other options.

I suggest that if the people that wrote your app cannot (or will not)
help, then you should find an app that works.

> 
> > > I've adjusted the config, and now X-plore connects just fine. The
> > > config looks
> > > like this now:
> > > 
> > > ```
> > > [global]
> > > 
> > >         disable spoolss = Yes
> > >         domain master = No
> > >         load printers = No
> > >         name resolve order = host
> > >         printcap name = /dev/null
> > >         server string = Samba Server %v
> > >         show add printer wizard = No
> > >         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE
> > >         idmap config * : backend = tdb
> > >         printing = bsd
> > >         valid users = __guest
> > 
> > Where did the '__guest' user come from ?
> 
> From useradd+smbpasswd.
> 

Thought so. Even though your user has 'guest' as part of its name, it
isn't a guest user, it is just a Samba user and you are now using
password authentication.

Rowland