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   Henrik Carlqvist  wrote:   
   > On Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:51:16 +0000, root wrote:   
   >   
   >> Henrik Carlqvist  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> echo | testparm -v ~/smb.conf 2> /dev/null | grep ports   
   >>>   
   >>> say?   
   >   
   >> I get nothing from that command.   
   >   
   > Whoops, sorry. As I don't have samba running myself I don't have the   
   > default /etc/smb.conf and when testing my commands I use an old smb.conf   
   > in my home directory. My intention was to remove the path to ~/smb.conf   
   > before posting the command.   
   >   
   >> I change ~/smb/conf to /etc/samba/smb.conf and I get:   
   >>   
   >>         enumports command =   
   >>         smb ports = 445 139   
   >   
   > That looks good, it seems as if your samba should be listening to port   
   > 445 that X-plore is complaining about.   
   >   
   > If you are unable to get ES File explorer working by changing min   
   > protocol to CORE it might be easier to configure an ftp server for ES   
   > File explorer to connect to than to get samba working again.   
   >   
   > regards Henrik   
      
   Thanks Henrik. Using CORE protocol does work, as does NT1.   
      
   Dozens of these puzzles have arisen since I converted from   
   14.2 to 15.0. It shouldn't be that way with Slackware.   
   The sample smb.conf should have provided an smb.conf that   
   worked (for at least some devices).   
      
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