[Samba] Can't get Win7 to mount

[Mike Brown]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 10:57:42AM +0000, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the update.  More digging.

MB
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