Windows NT fails to mount Samba share
by Sheriff Hobbes from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5FK0T)
Hello,
I have just migrated from CentOS 7.6 to Oracle Linux 8.3. I'm running a Windows NT 4 virtual machine with KVM. It had a drive mapped to a Samba share on the KVM host. Everything was fine with CentOS 7.6, but the very same VM gives me a
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with the new OL installation.
Even older Linux distributions like Debian 8 refused to connect with the default settings. For security reasons the option "vers=3.0" had to be passed. That's why I believe that the WinNT problem is also related to some security setting. What I already could exclude from the root cause list:
Thanks,
SH
P.S.: Please, no jokes about me still running Windows NT :hattip:


I have just migrated from CentOS 7.6 to Oracle Linux 8.3. I'm running a Windows NT 4 virtual machine with KVM. It had a drive mapped to a Samba share on the KVM host. Everything was fine with CentOS 7.6, but the very same VM gives me a
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No More Connections Can Be Made To This Remote Computer at this Time |
Even older Linux distributions like Debian 8 refused to connect with the default settings. For security reasons the option "vers=3.0" had to be passed. That's why I believe that the WinNT problem is also related to some security setting. What I already could exclude from the root cause list:
- SELinux
- Firewall
- several registry hacks on the Windows side
Thanks,
SH
P.S.: Please, no jokes about me still running Windows NT :hattip: