[Samba] server max protocol appropriate values

James
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:36:01 -0000

Hi Marc,

    I'm a little confused. The values I provided for client and server
max protocol are default values. At least according to the command
'samba-tool testparm -v'. I have not explicitly set them in my smb.conf
file. I assume SMB3 became the default at some point with a release? I'm
worried now that I must make explicit changes to my smb.conf file when
default values are changed from a prior version. Maybe it's a bug and my
values should've been changed when I updated Samba when smb3 became the
default? I started with 4.0.0 from tar for reference. Sequential version
updates after that. Thanks.

On 3/4/2015 5:43 PM, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
> Hello James,
>
> Am 04.03.2015 um 16:26 schrieb James:
>>     My DC smb.conf currently has the following set
>>
>>         server max protocol = NT1
>>         server min protocol = CORE
>>         client max protocol = NT1
>>         client min protocol = CORE
>>
>> Is it safe to change both the client and server max to = SMB3? What
>> about on member servers? Should I be concerned with anything breaking?
>> I'm using Windows 7 clients to authenticate against Ubuntu 4.1.17
DC's
>> and a Debian Wheezy as a file server.
> If the new protocol versions are instable, they wouldn't be default.
;-)
>
> At work I have all server (4.1.17) running on their default value. But
> we encountered some SMB2 caching problems. But this was client related
> and can be controlled via registry/GPO settings, if appearing:
> https://technet.microsoft.com/zh-tw/library/ff686200%28v=ws.10%29.aspx
>
>
> Regards,
> Marc

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-James