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Nov 03, 2020

Samba 4.1.17 for ReadyNAS Duo v1 (sparc)

Hi all, I just picked one of these old guys up for super cheap. I kept finding posts where people were told that you couldn't get any newer versions of Samba on it, but I decided to try anyway. ...

potew

Aspirant

Aug 13, 2022

After some bit trial and error (had to learn editing files in Vi lol) I also made it work and finally could close SMB v1.0 support on my Win10 machine. Many thanks to the OP on this thread! After upgrading my x-raided Sparc to 1Gb RAM + 2Tb everything seems to be working smoothly (sorry, Netgear, things have been overly expensive these times!).

A remark I think it's worth is that I couldn't connect to my shares without enabling guest logins in Gpedit.msc (which is kinda unsafe but wouldnt't make such a difference in my home network). This is disabled by default on W10 (as in previous versions I was able to connect normally even with SMBv3). I tried to connect with the same user that I created through the frontview panel in the NAS but without success, so it tries to connect with my MS account and fallback to the guest one, so it connects as long as I disable this security check. If any experienced Windows user did make it work, I would appreciate how it was done!

StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Aug 14, 2022
potew wrote:

I tried to connect with the same user that I created through the frontview panel in the NAS but without success, so it tries to connect with my MS account and fallback to the guest one, so it connects as long as I disable this security check. If any experienced Windows user did make it work, I would appreciate how it was done!

Have you tried this test? Open CMD on the PC and enter

net use * /delete /y net use z: \\nas-ip-address\sharename /user:username userpassword

using the real NAS ip address and sharename of course, and the username and password you created for the account in frontview.

The first command closes out any open SMB sessions, the second maps the share to drive letter z.
- potew
  Aspirant
  Sep 13, 2022
  Tested here and it seem to have worked, I disabled the guest logins in the group policy manager, and still can connect to the newly added shares. Many thanks for this advice.
  - NeilPeart
    Aspirant
    Jan 30, 2023
    I originally posted as MusicLover2112 because I could not restore my original account at the time, but this is NeilPeart. I have now performed this upgrade on a ReadyNAS NV, NV+, and Duo v1, using the method described above. I recommend using an actual Linux machine (I just used an old Chromebook running Linux Mint Cinnamon 21.1) instead of the WSL2 on Windows 11 - less of a headache to deal with some of the strange sha1-rsa issues that may arise. Even if one is not a Linux expert (I am far from it myself), the instructions are rather clear, IMO - worth the time if you still want to use the old machines as backups or something else, without exposing your modern machines by enabling legacy Samba access. Thanks again to bc732 for his awesome guidance (and others here for their input as well).