How to Connect a Windows 7 Client to an Old Samba?

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Dec 272013
 

Sometimes you get in contact with legacy systems – real legacy systems. In this case it is a Sun Microsystems Netra T1-AC200 with Solaris 9 (aka SunOS 5.9) and a samba version used in prehistoric times:

# smbd -V
Version 2.2.12

Anything I tried to get my Windows 7 connected to this system – it failed. Continue reading »