[Samba] clients not connecting to samba shares

[Rowland Penny]

On 30/03/2023 04:28, Gary Dale via samba wrote:

> 
> Baokports are for people who need something that the stable version 
> doesn't provide. That's not me. I run Debian/Stable on my servers for a 
> reason. I run Testing on my workstation because I want to help test 
> things. And I run it my new laptop because it requires drivers that 
> aren't available in Stable.
> 
> Debian does update stable when a serious issue is found that can't be 
> patched. However that is a vector for breakage - it wasn't that long ago 
> that an update to ghostscript broke a lot programs in Stable that used 
> it to produce PDFs. We had to choose between a security flaw or a lack 
> of functionality.
> 
> I'll wait until Bookworm becomes Stable to get the Samba upgrade.

Samba is a rapidly evolving thing, blink and you miss something, in my 
opinion you need to keep up to date.

Debian does, like most distros, backport Samba patches, but it doesn't 
backport everything. There was a large change at Samba 4.16.0, the 
entire Heimdal was replaced with a very newer version and if you have 
any Windows 11 or up to date Windows 10 machines, you are going to need 
it. I do not think that Debian has backported that change to the 4.13.x 
series it provides in the standard Debian 11 repo, but it is in the 
4.17.6 version from backports (which, as far as I understand, is exactly 
the same version that Debian 12 will supply)

It is your computer and you get to decide what you run on it, but when 
the Debian Samba maintainer and a member of the Samba team are both 
advising using backports, then you may want to wonder why.

Rowland