Bug #25101
Replace SMB min/max protocol fields with sysctls
Description
The UI lets the minimum Samba version be left empty ("---------") but there isn't an entry in the drop-down list so one (apparently) can't leave the max version empty on saving the screen, or return it to "unset" if it's been used one time.
Can an "unset" option be added to the SELECT list for this control?
(Note, using 11.0 old UI, might need fixing in new UI as well)
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History
#1
Updated by Dru Lavigne about 3 years ago
Updated by Dru Lavigne - Assignee changed from Release Council to William Grzybowski
#2
Updated by William Grzybowski about 3 years ago
Updated by William Grzybowski - Status changed from Unscreened to Screened
- Priority changed from No priority to Nice to have
- Target version set to 11.1
#3
Updated by Stilez y about 3 years ago
Updated by Stilez y On an aside, it isn't clear in the GUI that "SMB3" actually means "any version of 3.x" rather than "Version 3 original version only". In other words SMB3 and SMB3_00 are easily confused.
As a trivial change affecting GUI only and not middleware, can I suggest changing the dropdown UI text "-----", "SMB2" and "SMB3" in min+max, to read
---- -> "(none)"
SMB2 -> "SMB2.*"
or: "SMB2 (any variant)"
SMB3 -> "SMB3.*"
or: "SMB3 (any variant)"
or similar, which aren't as ambiguous.
#4
Updated by an odos about 3 years ago
Updated by an odos Stilez y wrote:
On an aside, it isn't clear in the GUI that "SMB3" actually means "any version of 3.x" rather than "Version 3 original version only". In other words SMB3 and SMB3_00 are easily confused.
As a trivial change affecting GUI only and not middleware, can I suggest changing the dropdown UI text "-----", "SMB2" and "SMB3" in min+max, to read
[...]
or similar, which aren't as ambiguous.
Well, technically the smb.conf manpage states
By default SMB3 selects the SMB3_11 variant.The distinction between "any SMB3.x protocol" and "SMB3.11" is important if you set SMB3 to be "server min protocol" ;-)
#5
Updated by Stilez y about 3 years ago
"Technically" isn't a big deal compared to "helpful", when it comes to making the UI more straightforward without cost.
Sure, people who use samba in CLI may know the small print. But as FreeNAS has a NAS appliance webUI approach and is rather more geared to suit those who haven't read the man pages as well .... ;-) maybe we could make that (or a similar) edit anyway and avoid assuming a depth of knowledge that most users surely won't be expected to have :)
#6
Updated by William Grzybowski almost 3 years ago
- Status changed from Screened to Unscreened
- Assignee changed from William Grzybowski to John Hixson
I am not sure of the side effects of doing this. Over to John since he is the Samba master.
#7
Updated by John Hixson almost 3 years ago
Updated by John Hixson - Status changed from Unscreened to Needs Developer Review
- Assignee changed from John Hixson to Release Council
- Target version changed from 11.1 to 11.0-U3
"Fixed". I have a bad feeling about this. I'd really like the min and max protocol knobs to be hidden ;-) The values for these are negotiated by the protocol. Occasionally setting them is necessary or desired, but most of the time these are fiddled with when it isn't necessary thus causing things to break and bringing more tickets ;-)
commit:db1bf13d2752d692cc5f96570683526f15b7ed74
pull request: https://github.com/freenas/freenas/pull/270
#8
Updated by an odos almost 3 years ago
John Hixson wrote:
"Fixed". I have a bad feeling about this. I'd really like the min and max protocol knobs to be hidden ;-) The values for these are negotiated by the protocol. Occasionally setting them is necessary or desired, but most of the time these are fiddled with when it isn't necessary thus causing things to break and bringing more tickets ;-)
commit:db1bf13d2752d692cc5f96570683526f15b7ed74
pull request: https://github.com/freenas/freenas/pull/270
John, out of curiosity is there a reason why FreeNAS defaults to "Core" for min protocol when Samba defaults to "LANMAN1"?
#9
Updated by Dru Lavigne almost 3 years ago
- Assignee changed from Release Council to Timur Bakeyev
#10
Updated by Timur Bakeyev almost 3 years ago
Updated by Timur Bakeyev - Status changed from Needs Developer Review to Reviewed by Developer
- Assignee changed from Timur Bakeyev to Release Council
Looks good to me, but I second the question - why CORE is the default?
#11
Updated by Dru Lavigne almost 3 years ago
- Assignee changed from Release Council to John Hixson
#12
Updated by Vaibhav Chauhan almost 3 years ago
Updated by Vaibhav Chauhan - Status changed from Reviewed by Developer to Unscreened
as discussed on telegram we will have to rework this change
#13
Updated by Vaibhav Chauhan almost 3 years ago
- Target version changed from 11.0-U3 to 11.1
retargeting to 11.1
#14
Updated by John Hixson almost 3 years ago
- Status changed from Unscreened to Closed: Not Applicable
This isn't a thing in master, which will become 11.1
#15
Updated by Dru Lavigne almost 3 years ago
- Target version changed from 11.1 to N/A
#16
Updated by Dru Lavigne almost 3 years ago
- Subject changed from Cannot leave Samba max version empty to Replace SMB min/max protocol fields with sysctls
- Status changed from Closed: Not Applicable to Resolved
- Target version changed from N/A to 11.1-BETA1
#17
Updated by Joe Maloney over 2 years ago
Updated by Joe Maloney - Needs QA changed from Yes to No
- QA Status Test Passes FreeNAS added
- QA Status deleted (
Not Tested)