[Samba] Can't get Win7 to mount

[Anders Östling]

We had a similar issue with an industrial robot built on Win 7. Our
solution was to add another VM with SMB2 as allowed minimum client for it's
file share. No changes were required on the Win client (not sure which SP
it is built on though)

On Mon, Mar 3, 2025, 03:47 Mike Brown via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> 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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