[ubuntu] Checking "Capability" Level of Samba Before Setting SMB2

[JRA]

Hello Linux gurus.

 

Today's question is, in light of the recent 'orrible malware attacks, I've got a server of a certain age that's not serving anything to Windows clients with SMBv1 disabled. I'd like to add the following to my Samba server's smb.conf file, in [global] section:

 

min protocol = SMB2

 

But I'm not sure if the version of Samba installed on this Linux server actually supports SMBv2. Is there any way to check?

 

Thanks for any and all help.

[pete]

The output of "smbclient --version" will tell you the samba version.

 

If you're running 3.6 or better, you should be fine (though 4.0 or greater is better).

 

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba3/SMB2

 

If you post the linux distribution and version info, we may be able to help more.

[mjk]

Samba 3.6 introduced smb2

https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.6.0.html

 

run "smbstatus" to work out your current version

[JRA]

Thanks everyone.