[Samba] Can't get Win7 to mount

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:39:56 -0600
Mike Brown via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Fedora 41
> Samba 4.21.4
> 
> The smbd under Fedora 27 (yes it is old) has no problem letting Win7
> mount stuff.
> 
> Any ideas on getting Win7 to mount from the newer Fedora?
> 

This is all down to the SMB protocols being used. Samba, since 4.11.0,
uses a minimum of SMBv2, your Win7 machine uses SMBv1.

You probably just need to add 'vers=1.0' to your mount command on
fedora, see 'man mount.cifs' for more information.

Rowland