[Samba] Can't get Win7 to mount

Mike Brown brown at mrvideo.vidiot.com
Sat Mar 1 09:49:11 UTC 2025


On Sat, Mar 01, 2025 at 09:36:24AM +0000, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> 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.

I'm mounting a fedora file system on the Win7 box, so a Fedora mount
command is not being used.  Is there a way to indicate in the smd config
file that v1 should be used?

MB
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