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No access to shares after disabling SMB1 as recommended by Microsoft
Hi everyone, in view of the latest WannaCry/Crypt attack on 12 May 2017, Microsoft recommended to patch my Windows 10 OS and disable SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support. Check this link: ht...
On RAIDiator 4.1 and RAIDiator 5.3, they use versions of Samba that do not support SMB2. You will need to use the Windows tricks to re-enable SMB1 support.
On RAIDiator 4.2, it can support SMB2 but you may experience a performance hit that you could find unacceptable.
We can see about creating an unofficial add-on for RAIDiator 4.2 boxes that you can use at your own risk to be use SMB2. These devices were not meant to run SMB2 though. All of the RAIDiator boxes are older than 5 years. It might be time for an upgrade.
If you are really concerned, you can unofficially upgrade most RAIDiator 4.2 boxes to OS 6 at the risk of factory defaulting your NAS and putting your data back onto the volumes. Alternatively, you can upgrade to a newer ReadyNAS and use the old ReadyNAS as a backup (always smart to have multiple backups, which eliminates single point of failure).
RAIDiator 4.x and 5.x SMB uses a version of Samba that depends on SMB/CIFS 1 client support to work. They won't be getting feature updates at this point. ReadyNAS OS 6.x supports up to SMB 3 and will happily keep working if you disable SMB 1 support on your client computers.
Windows 10 was never vulnerable to Wannacrypt. I think the security benefits to disabling it are speculative at best, especially if you actually need it to access your files.
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