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Subject: Re: Anyone Made SAMBA Work on Recent Manjaro Releases ?
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 11:31:12 +0200
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On Thu, 18 Jul 2024, 26yh.0712 wrote:

> I've used SAMBA for a very LONG time with Linux.
> I mean from WAY back.
>
> Just can NOT get it to work right on Manjaro - and
> I've tried every trick I know and can think of.
>
> The share DOES show up - but in the end you just
> CAN'T sign in ... always some ill-defined auth
> error.
>
> Currently had to resort to the No File Security
> system. THAT works ... but ........
>
> SAMBA has *lots* of options, fine detail. It's
> really the Better Way these days.
>

Could it be a version mismatch? I know that in my case I have an old NAS 
which supports an older version of samba, and when trying to access it 
from a newer linux, I have to add or edit something in smb.conf to make it 
talk the old smb standard. After doing that, everything works.