[Samba] Can't get Win7 to mount

[Rowland Penny]

On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 20:43:36 -0600
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.
> 

I installed win7 in a VM over the weekend, I just created a local
Windows user and did not join it to the domain.

I then created a share on a Unix domain member, which was running Samba
4.21.3 and with 'disable netbios = yes' set (so definitely no NetBIOS):

[testshare]
	path = /srv/test
	read only = no

I set the permissions, as a test, to '0777':

ls -lad /srv/test
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Mar  2 13:23 /srv/test

Connected (in Network) from the win7 machine:

\\192.168.1.114\testshare

Entered my domain username & password when prompted, I was logged in
and was allowed to create a directory, checking on the Unix domain
member gave this:

ls -la /srv/test
total 16
drwxrwxrwx  3 root    root         4096 Mar  2 13:23 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root    root         4096 Mar  2 13:17 ..
drwxrwxr-x+ 2 rowland domain users 4096 Mar  2 13:22 testfolder

So I created another share, set 'map to guest = bad user' in 'global'
on the server and connected to the share as an unknown user and that
worked.

So it is possible, it looks like something on the OPs win7 isn't set up
correctly.

Rowland