[Samba] Can't get Win7 to mount

[Mike Brown]

On Sun, Mar 02, 2025 at 11:26:38AM +0000, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 03:29:17 -0600
> Mike Brown via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > What is strange is that it is working fine with V3(?) under Fedora 27.
> > The only difference, that I know of, is V4 under F41.
> 
> It isn't strange, it is to be expected.
> If I remember correctly, fedora 27 came with Samba 4.7.9 and the
> default for 'server min protocol' was 'LANMAN1'
> This was changed at Samba 4.11.0 to default to 'SMB2_02'

Thanks for the info.

> This means that if your Win7 machine is only using SMBv1, then it could
> connect to the fedora 27 machine, but it would not be able to connect
> to fedora 41, where SMBv1 is turned off by default.

I need to find out what it is.

> > That said, I am thinking about enabling the Win7 nfs client and use it
> > instead.  I haven't configured a Linux box to export files via nfs in
> > ages. :-)
> 
> Is there a working NFS client for Windows 7 ? I know there is one for
> the latest Windows. It will probably be easier to get Samba working.

Supposidly.  A search provided instructions on how to enable it.  I've
not tried yet.

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