[Samba] server max protocol appropriate values

Rowland Penny
Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:01:05 -0000

On 06/03/15 17:35, Tim wrote:
> I have to add noise: Provisioning a DC with sernet 4.1.x called NT1 as max
default with me.
>
>
>
> Am 6. M?rz 2015 18:28:55 MEZ, schrieb James <lingpanda101 at
gmail.com>:
>> OK. Now I'm really confused. I was not aware of two
'testparm'
>> commands.
>> Running 'testparm -v' shows correct default values.  So whats
the
>> difference?
>>
>>
>> On 3/6/2015 12:20 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>> On 06/03/15 17:05, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
>>>> Am 06.03.2015 um 14:56 schrieb Rowland Penny:
>>>>>>   From 'samba-tool testparm -v' :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> server max protocol = NT1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BUT 'man smb.conf' says this :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Default: server max protocol = SMB3
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OK, one of these is wrong, but which ???
>>>> If you run 4.1 or later, then SMB3 is the default.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 06.03.2015 um 16:30 schrieb James:
>>>>> Using Wireshark I see the protocol used as SMB2.  Using a
Windows
>>>>> workstation I tested by navigating to files and folders on
my
>> member
>>>>> server or to my sysvol folder on a DC.
>>>> Win7 doesn't speak SMB3.
>>>>
>>>> SMB 2.0 was introduced by Vista/2008
>>>> SMB 2.1 by Win7/2008R2
>>>> SMB 2.2 aka 3.0 by Win8/2012
>>>> SMB 3.02 by 8.1/2012R2
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Marc
>>> OK, so I sorted my problem, it was the old 'testparm -v'
and
>>> 'samba-tool testparm -v' giving different results problem,
the man
>>> page is correct.
>>>
>>> Sorry for the noise :-)
>>>
>>> Rowland
>> --
>> -James
>>
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No, as Marc says 'SMB3' is the default, if you run 'samba-tool
testparm
-v' you will find this: 'server max protocol = NT1', but if you run
'testparm -v' you will find this: 'server max protocol = SMB3'

I understand that from 4.2, the two commands should return the same results.

Rowland