Had a weird experience with a Win7 client and 2016 DC, the client had drives mapped by FQDN and they suddenly dropped and I could not resolve the domain on the system. Flushdns and verifying the ...

September 2025 Patch Tuesday update breaks SMBv1 file sharing; Microsoft confirms the issue and offers a workaround.

I want to beef up security a bit.<P>Setup:<BR>3 Win2K SP2 PCs all connected to a Netgear 10/100 switch, connected to a DSL modem. I get 3 dynamic IPs, one for each machine. All three machines are ...

Microsoft has confirmed that the 2025 Windows security updates are causing connection issues to Server Message Block (SMB) v1 shares.

This will make /tmp on the server available as a Samba share over TCP/IP. The use of security = user and map to guest allows guest shares to operate similarly to the deprecated security = share mode ...