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after posting. The thread might be broken as a result.)
Hello,
Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org wrote:
> However, on the Linux side, I would suggest you upgrade everything.
> You? appear to still be using Stretch, which is EOL as far as Debian
> is? concerned. Samba 4.15.6 is definitely EOL, the latest Samba
> version is 4.17.3 . You also seem to be running Samba as a quasi PDC,
> but only with (or so it seems) guest access. The use of 'wins' etc
is
> virtually dead.
>
> As you probably do not want to run an AD domain, can I suggest you
> upgrade everything, run a standalone server (without wins etc) using
> Avahi for the Linux clients and wsdd for the Windows clients.
>
Thanks for the info. Since wsdd requires Python 3.7+ and Debian 9
stopped at Python 3.5, I'll have to bite the bullet and upgrade to
Debian 10/11.