Samba – Mounting encrypted Samba share (linux server/client)

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I'm trying to set up encrypted samba access. In order to achieve that I've added 2 lines to [global] scope in smb.conf:

server signing = mandatory
smb encrypt = mandatory

But unfortunately I can't mount samba shares now anywhere. I've tried with Dolphin under KDE and using mount -t cifs, even tried smbclient command line. I'm getting following errors:

dolphin:

Unknown error condition in stat: Software caused connection abort

mount:

mount error(13): Permission denied

smbclient:

Error returning browse list: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTED

how to properly enforce encryption and mount it on linux machine? Windows would be nice as well but I've read that this encryption method is not supported there yet.

I have samba 4.1 on client and 3.6 on server (OpenSUSE / Debian) but tried also looped connection on SUSE 4.1 <> 4.1 with the same result.

Best Answer

If I am not mistaken, mount.cifs does not support the encryption feature of Samba (yet!?).

The -e option of smbclient should work, though.

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