Samba on MX19.2[RESOLVED]

[asqwerth]

If I understand SR's point, he's saying that the weakness is on the Windows machine's end.

You enable smb1 on Windows (because you think that will help your Linux machine get easy access to the Windows machine), and that Windows machine is going to have security holes. That was why he asked GUIGuy if his Windows machines were connected to the internet.

Using the MX machine is not going to give you problems.

[dolphin_oracle]

For what it's worth using smb1 on windows still doesn't give me browsing.

I'm very interested in getting the secret sauce worked out though

[GuiGuy]

I assume that 98 and XP both use smb1 since I can browse and connect to them from MX18.3.
Perhaps W10 does not let smb1 work even if you enable it?

I am glad I don't use W10 but I understand that MX devs need it because many new MX users
will have it on their machines.

[tony37]

I'm really curious for what obsolete programs someone needs Windows 98. If you don't want to say, no problem, just curious.
Maybe you'll have to live with the fact that at some point, Samba support for these systems from prehistory won't be available anymore.
I still have a Windows XP system here, mostly collecting dust though.

[nathan2423]

Perhaps W10 does not let smb1 work even if you enable it?

Acccording to this page, that is exactly correct- Windows 10 does not allow SMB1

https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/09/ ... _one_smb1/

And i can't find the link I saw a moment ago, but seems like I read that Vista was the first to introduce SMB2, and that therefore machines earlier than Vista were never upgraded to have the ability to run SMB2, so it's not like you could get all your older machines on SMB2 as a way of dealing with the problem.

[dolphin_oracle]

I'm really curious for what obsolete programs someone needs Windows 98. If you don't want to say, no problem, just curious.
Maybe you'll have to live with the fact that at some point, Samba support for these systems from prehistory won't be available anymore.
I still have a Windows XP system here, mostly collecting dust though.

win98 and winxp is handy for old games. I've been known to keep them around as well.

[tony37]

win98 and winxp is handy for old games. I've been known to keep them around as well.

ok, but if it'd be just for games, I don't see much need to do samba sharing
but maybe I'm ignorant there too

[GuiGuy]

This problem appears to be a regression in 19.2 from 18.3.
IMO that is sufficient reason to want it fixed.

[tony37]

This problem appears to be a regression in 19.2 from 18.3.
IMO that is sufficient reason to want it fixed.

I fear for you that developers (not necessarily MX devs, but the developers of Samba) will say that it's actually not regression but progression. A feature, not a bug.

MX 18.3 has Samba 2:4.5.16 and MX 19.2 has 2:4.9.5. So maybe it's just something in the Samba package and not in MX.

[GuiGuy]

Bump, because this serious issue is apparently not getting any attention.