Windows 7 Samba

[Softail]

In order to connect to the samba share from Windows 7 I needed an smb.postconf script

pc_replace "max protocol = NT1" "max protocol = SMB2" $CONFIG

SMB3 doesn't seem to work but is only relevant to 8.1 AFAIK.

Is this safe? Is there any reason such a low level is wired into the smb.conf file?

 

[RMerlin]

In order to connect to the samba share from Windows 7 I needed an smb.postconf script

pc_replace "max protocol = NT1" "max protocol = SMB2" $CONFIG

SMB3 doesn't seem to work but is only relevant to 8.1 AFAIK.

Is this safe? Is there any reason such a low level is wired into the smb.conf file?

SMB3 is not supported by Samba 3.6.

SMB2.02 is only supported in my recent releases, however it carries a performance penalty, which is why I left it disabled by default. On my Win 8.1 test setup the performance drop with SMB2 was over 10%.

To enable it, you can use the following commands over SSH:

nvram set smbd_enable_smb2
nvram commit
service restart_nasapps

Any older or Asus firmware only supports NT1, as the Samba version used does not support anything newer.