[Samba] Make samba look like a Windows 2000 machine

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Apr 16 18:42:35 UTC 2025


On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 07:28:41PM +0100, Andrew Pattison via samba wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I've got an odd problem that I hope you can help me with. I recently bought
>an old Sonos music player, and I want to connect it to my music library,
>which resides on a Raspberry Pi. Because it is an old Sonos box, it only
>speaks SMB1. It also seems to be extremely picky about which SMB1 systems
>it will talk to. I have been able to get it to use a share on a Windows
>2000 VM, and for the Windows 2000 VM to use a share on my Pi running
>Raspberry Pi OS (based on Debian), but the Sonos won't use the share on the
>Pi.
>
>Can anyone tell me what else I need to set to make samba look more like
>Windows 2000? My smb.conf is:
>
>[global]
>min protocol = NT1
>max protocol = NT1
>ntlm auth = yes
>ntlm auth - ntlmv1-permitted
>lanman auth = yes
>raw NTLMv2 auth = yes
>workgroup = WORKGROUP
>server string = %h server
>
>security = user
>encrypt passwords = true
>passdb backend = tdbsam
>
>valid users = andrew
>force user = andrew
>force group = andrew
>
>[music]
>path = /home/andrew/Music
>

Add:

unix extensions = no

to the [global] section.



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