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   From: pinnerite@gmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:55:29 -0500   
   Nic  wrote:   
      
   > On 3/10/23 14:25, pinnerite wrote:   
   > > For many years I have had to retain two Windows virtual machines,   
   > > running on a Linux host and VirtualBox.   
   > >   
   > > I need Windows XP for a large home-grown 16 bit programe and for a   
   > > programme that drives a Fujitsu cut-sheet feeder-scanner.   
   > >   
   > > Windows 10 is for professional software not available on any other   
   > > platform.   
   > >   
   > > The data files are all on Linux partitions and accessed from Windows   
   > > using samba.   
   > >   
   > > I have to use the lowest security protocol for Windows to access the   
   > > data.   
   > >   
   > > Today, I discovered that from both Windows I could not longer access   
   > > the data.   
   > >   
   > > Eventually I powered down and then up again using a drive last cloned   
   > > in December 2022.   
   > >   
   > > Everything worked perfectly.   
   > >   
   > > So it seems an update has clobbered my machine.   
   > >   
   > > Has anyone else using samba suffered from this problem?   
   > >   
   > > TIA, Alan   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >   
   > >   
   > Can you look at your history of updates in the update manager to see   
   > what update has caused this problem?   
      
   It looks like an update 2023-03-08 caused the problem.   
   The earliest timeshift entry is for the same date.   
      
   Presumably I can uninstall the installed version (2:4.15.12) from synaptic.   
      
   But how do I install version 2:4.13.17?   
      
   Oh! The Windows 10 problem was fixed by an smb.conf tweak.   
      
   I had had:   server max protocol = NT1   I changed it to min.   
      
      
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