Re-enable smb1

I have just upgraded my Linux desktop to 20.04LTS, and I can any immediate major issues/bugs.

Most modern OSes have disabled support to SMB1 by default due to known security issues.  It is all good if you don't have any legacy devices.  If you are like myself who still have one of these legacy device, you may need to re-enable the smb1 support.

To re-enable smb1 support, you need to edit your /etc/samba/smb.conf and add the line below to its [global] section.


client min protocol = NT1

SMB3

I have issues to browse Windows Shares on my network ever since Windows retired SMB1.  Today I came across this post and its solution fixes my problem.

To make Windows shares browsable again, I added this line to /etc/samba/smb.conf

client max protocol = SMB3

This line should be put right after the line

workgroup = WORKGROUP

 Now I can browse and open share folders on my Windows machines in the network as it used to be.