[Samba] Howto encrypted traffic flowing to the server?

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Sun Jun 26 16:41:34 UTC 2022


On Sun, 2022-06-26 at 17:54 +0200, Ralf Roeber via samba wrote:
> Dear friends of samba,
> 
> aim: get "samba client session" to encrypt data going over the
> network 
> to the "filer"
> 
> I only have access to the client.
> 
> On the client /etc/samba/smb.conf I have set:
> 
> [global] # smb encrypt = auto smb encrypt = mandatory client signing
> = 
> mandatory
> 
> And I used this mount:
> 
> mount -t cifs //foo/gdce_o0303$ /mnt/filer -o 
> vers=3.1.1,credentials=~/.smbcredentials
> 
> In tcpdump I can read "foo" when doing echo foo > /mnt/filer
> 
> On irc-samba it was confirmed that the connection is not encrypted.
> 
> I am blank on this. Searched for +4h and can't get hold of what am I 
> doing wrong.
> 
> Any ideas welcome.
> 
> Have a great sunday and a great start into the new week,
> 
> Ralf
> 
> Pastebin of my configuration and mount command 
> https://paste.debian.net/1245276/

You do not seem to have any shares to mount.
mount.cifs has nothing to do with Samba.

Rowland





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