[CentOS] NTLMv2 compatibility in Samba 3.0.33 standard packages

Sat Apr 28 13:51:05 UTC 2012
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

On 04/28/2012 08:18 AM, Alain Péan wrote:
> Le 25/04/2012 01:01, Andrew Reis a écrit :
>> I've been running into
>> the problem of clients using Windows 7 with CentOS 5.X and file/printer
>> sharing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the stand samba-3.0.33-x.x.x
>> packages DO NOT provide compatibility with Windows Vista/7. I've had to
>> manually compile samba from source or use the samba3x packages to fix
>> the problem. Just wondering if we're ever going to have the NTLMv2
>> subroutines compiled into the update/centosplus repo packages.
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On my CentOS 5.x > 5.6 machines, I removed standard samba, 3.0.33, and 
> installed samba3x (3.5.6 at the time I did it first), for this very same 
> reason.
>
> I don't want to compile anything if I can avoid it, and use the 
> supported packages from the distribution, that provides updates for it.
>

There are 2 options for Windows 7 support that I recommend.

The first is what Alain recommended ... there is a samba-3x version that
is part of CentOS-5.  The current version is:

samba3x-3.5.10-0.108.el5_8.src.rpm

That is a good option, and it will be supported with updates for the
lifetime of EL5.

Another option if you want to use the smb2 protocol (the one that is
used in Windows-7, 8, and Windows Server 2008 and is included in samba-4
and samba-3.6.x) then you can use enterprisesamba.org

http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.6/rhel/5/

I have personally used samba-3.6.x (and the standard LDAP in CentOS-5)
for the last 7 months from enterprisesamba.org for $work for a Windows
domain directory services without any major issues. (a domain for more
than 300 users and interconnected across several US states)

Info on smb2:

http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.0.html

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

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