Samba

When I tried to connect from macOS to a QNAP’s Samba share for the first time in a while, for some reason I was denied and could not log in even though I was entering the correct password. For reference, the macOS here is the latest Sonoma environment. Investigation Logging in from Windows works fine Logging in over afp works fine Logging in from older macOS (High Sierra or Mojave) works fine too How to fix it Either method is fine as long as it solves the problem [Read More]

At work I have been asked about not being able to connect to shared folders (Samba) since somewhere around Windows 10, and recently the questions from people who have updated to Windows 11 have increased as well. Let’s check the items below! Enabling the SMB1.0 client On Windows 11 the “SMB1.0 client” is disabled in the default settings. The “SMB1.0 client” standard is old and vulnerabilities have been reported for it, so Microsoft disables the “SMB1.0 client” from a security point of view, and that accounts for most of the cases where the connection fails [Read More]

At work there was a request to build a temporary Windows file sharing server on Linux and test against it. Since it was only temporary, I wanted to avoid dirtying the system by installing directly onto it, so I built it with Docker. That said, a Docker image already exists, so all I do is use it This repository looks comparatively recently updated and maintained [Read More]