samba - Aug 2016 - WindowsPE 10.0 -- Samba 4.4.5 connection problem

Hello Rowland,
> I have never used used WindowsPE, but from what you posted, you just
> want to connect anonymously to the Samba share.
Not really. Our Samba-production environment uses accounts. I just want to keep
the test Samba-cfg simple. (Even with Your change I can't connect. Same
error).

Best regards,
Ralf

On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 12:56:49 +0200
Ralf Aumüller <Ralf.Aumueller at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> Hello Rowland,
> 
> > I have never used used WindowsPE, but from what you posted, you just
> > want to connect anonymously to the Samba share.
> 
> Not really. Our Samba-production environment uses accounts. I just
> want to keep the test Samba-cfg simple. (Even with Your change I
> can't connect. Same error).
> 
> Best regards,
> Ralf
> 
> 
In which case, what ever user is going to connect to the Samba server
will need to exist on it, as both a Unix & Samba user. The user will
need to have the same password everywhere.

If the user is just copying the files from the Samba share to the
windows machine and then running them, the anonymous user way should
work, but it will depend on the permissions being set correctly,
both in smb.conf and on the Unix machine, I would start by checking
that the Unix permisions are set to 777

Rowland

> In which case, what ever user is going to connect to the Samba server
> will need to exist on it, as both a Unix & Samba user. The user will
> need to have the same password everywhere.
> 
> If the user is just copying the files from the Samba share to the
> windows machine and then running them, the anonymous user way should
> work, but it will depend on the permissions being set correctly,
> both in smb.conf and on the Unix machine, I would start by checking
> that the Unix permisions are set to 777
Maybe my description was not clear. We first see this problem in our production
environment. So I set up a test VM with samba 3.6.25 and 4.4.5 available.
Then I PXE-boot a notebook with Windows PE 5.0 and try to connect to my
test-samba-server. 3.6.25 works. Stopping 3.6.25 and starting 4.4.5: Works fine.

Then I PXE-boot Windows PE 10.0 and make the same test. Now just samba 3.6.25
works. Trying 4.4.5 gives error "System error 58 has occurred."
All tests use the same Samba-cfg-file.

Best regards,
Ralf