On Fri, 10 Jul 2020 at 11:40, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have an old IOmega Home Media Server, Cloud Edition NAS. > > It's just a single external 3.5" HDD with a little ARM board to turn it > into a NAS. This is so old that the company has changed a few times: > EMC bought IOmega > Dell bought EMC > Lenovo bought (parts of?) EMC from Dell > Perhaps I've missed some steps. > > Since I updated our desktops Fedora 31, Nautilus (AKA "Files") on the > Gnome desktop could not see it. > > To fix this took a bit of discovery. Eventually I added a line to > /etc/samba/smb.conf. In the [global] section: > > client min protocol = NT1 > > This isn't a great thing from a security standpoint but it's no worse > than before the Fedora update. > > This is surely obvious to any experienced Samba user, but I'm not one. > My only use of Samba is to access our NASes throuh Nautilus. > > Setting "client min protocol = NT1" is indeed a bad, bad idea from the security standpoint. Check out this article: https://www.ixsystems.com/community/resources/how-to-kill-off-smb1-netbios-wins-and-still-have-windows-network-neighbourhood-better-than-ever.106/ The approach described in this article worked to fix the same or very similar problem in my case, and it might help you with your problem too.
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