Subj : Why Windows won't speak t
To   : Ky Moffet
From : Barry Martin
Date : Thu Nov 14 2024 07:14:00



Hi Ky!

 KM> This appears to be the problem:
 KM> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-serv
 KM> er/troublesho
 KM> t/smbv1-not-installed-by-default-in-windows
 KM> For the 2016 release of Win10 and before, networked PCs speak to
 KM> each other with SMB1.x; now only with SMB2.x or later.
 KM> Which means that new Win10/11 box cannot see the older box, and
 KM> v.v. Or at least only intermittenently.
 KM> If I'd wanted networking problems among mixed species of OS, I'd
 KM> already be entirely on linux.....
 
You'll be glad to know even Linux (or at least Ubuntu) had this problem 
some years back.  My old NAS would not talk to some of the new computers
(probably with newer OS versions).  Ended up I had to tell the mount 
line in fstab to use "vers=1.0".


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