I've spent years installing the full samba package on desktops, just to get a /etc/samba/smb.conf
file that I can configure, but for many years now, Debian and Ubuntu have both had a pre-installed SMB client for gnome. Right now I can install a new copy of Debian, and immediately browse my network, but when I set my NAS to disable SMB1 (min protocol SMB2), I can no longer connect to it from that system (though I can from mint19 or windows or ubuntu with full samba package or cifs-utils).
I believe the built-in client comes from GVFS through the gvfs-backends library. I've just never figured out how to configure it. Or can it be configured?
I'm looking to do simple things like set the workgroup name, or wins server address, or SMB protocol versioning, or authentication protocols, etc.
How can I configure SMB client properties on a brand new vanilla copy of Debian Stretch without installing samba or smbclient?
client min protocol = SMB2
, but I'd like to learn to configure the builtin gvfs client, rather than installing a server package just to set one client setting. – Frank Thomas Jun 1 '19 at 21:41