[Samba] Can't get Win7 to mount

[Rowland Penny]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2025 03:49:11 -0600
Mike Brown via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 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

Sorry, I misunderstood what you where trying to do, but it is the same
reason, just the other way around.

So, either get win7 to use SMBv2 by default (not sure if you can do
that) or set 'server min protocol = NT1' in the Fedora smb.conf file.

Rowland