[arch-general] Samba is broken on stable repositories since March 28th, 2020.

[David C. Rankin]

On 03/29/2020 11:39 AM, fredbezies via arch-general wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Last update of samba, pushed on extra - instead of testing - is breaking
> share access.
> 
> Commit:
> https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-commits/2020-March/727612.html
> 
> See this thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=254083
> 
> Only fix for now? Downgrading samba.
> 

This is one of those rare occurrences when an update breaks critical server
functionality for some older environments. Samba 4.11 disables SMB1 by default
for the first time. I have old clients in backoffice roles that still use it.

Edit /etc/samba/smb.conf and add

client min protocol = NT1
server min protocol = NT1

to the global section to restore workgroups and SMB1

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.