# Supermicro IPMI & Samba/Windows share

Special thanks to Peter Kieser, whose blog post I found after a bit of searching: [https://peterkieser.com/2020/05/14/supermicro-ipmi-virtual-media-and-samba-4-11-ubuntu-20-04/](https://peterkieser.com/2020/05/14/supermicro-ipmi-virtual-media-and-samba-4-11-ubuntu-20-04/)

For most modern installations of Samba (according to the blog post, Samba 4.11+ on Ubuntu 20.04), you need to manually set NT1 as a supported protocol in `/etc/samba/smbd.conf` - Make sure it's under the `[global]` section:

```
[global]
server min protocol = NT1
```

Run `systemctl restart smbd` for good measure and try to connect again.  
I had to set `guest ok = yes` under my share settings as well and get rid of username/password in the IPMI input fields, but maybe that was unrelated:

```
[shares]
    path = /data/shares
    public = yes
    guest ok = yes
    read only = yes
```

"Share Host" is the public IP address of your Samba server.

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