[CentOS] Re: Samba on Centos 6

On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 15:47 -0700, Dave Close wrote:

Sorry to address such an old and obsolete system. A customer is migrating up from Centos 6 but needs to keep it working a little while longer. The issue now is that Windows users are unable to map a drive letter to a Centos directory. When they go to map the drive (to "\ip\public"), Windows says the connection is rejected, with no further details. I presume some configuration is set wrong but I haven't been able to find it after reading man pages and Google stuff.

I have faced this kind of problem before. There is a simple solution. Create a new modern host, NFS mount the volume from the legacy host, share the NFS mount via Samba to Windows clients from the modern host.