Set Up Windows for Omni Client

LanManFS, the component used by !OmniClient to connect so SMB/CIFS shares supports

• Plain text authentication (not recommended, but good for older servers)
• From version 2.52 onwards NTLM encryption (recommended)

Connecting to Windows 10

To connect to Windows 10, which disables SMB1 protocols if they aren’t used, you may need to go into Control Panel and turn them back on again. This is in the ‘Turn Windows features on and off’ section:

Also make sure that ‘Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP’ is turned on in the WINS tab of the Advanced section of TCP/IP setup for the respective network interface.

Fall back to plain text passwords

Which method is selected is agreed during an initial dialogue with the server so should be entirely automatic. If you need to force use of plain text authentication do one of:

Windows

1. Open “regedit.exe” on the Windows machine as described here and change
‘HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkStation\Parameters\EnablePlainTextPassword’ from 0 to 1
2. Reboot

MAC OS or Linux

1. Open the ‘/etc/smbconf’ file and change “encrypt passwords = yes” to “encrypt passwords = no”
2. Reboot, or restart Samba.