On Wed, 2018-07-18 at 16:57 +0100, Tom Smyth wrote: > Hi John, > > I would just follow the SAMBA documentation in setting up the share, > /shared folders, > > then on the windows clients you may have to tweak the security > settings > in the local security policy manager, (but windows out of the box > for domestic > settings) if your windows boxes are controlled by a Windows > Domain then you may need to talk to the windows admin to relax / > enhance > authentication settings and SMB signing settings in the group policy > ) > but a typical windows setup > should just ask you for a username and password to connect to the > setup > samba share >
Thanks Tom. It's my box and I'm the incompetent sysadmin, so no worries other than those self-inflicted ;) I got spoiled years ago by ssh and RSA authentication and I don't like the idea of username/password in general.. but the traffic doesn't go to the outside world in my setup so I guess it is ok. > keep it simple for now > the eventlog (system event log) with the following > windows command > eventvwr > will spew errors if there are a mismatches in your security settings > and you will get hints by looking up errors as you see them, Thanks, this is good info! Not sure if I'll keep Roon or not. It has some nice features but it is still pretty rough on things I would have thought it should handle. /jl
