How to force SMB2 protocol in samba?

My testing with Nessus has indicated SMBv1 is only disabled when setting

min protocol = SMB2

in the [global] section of smb.conf . Core, LANMAN2 and NT1 were all still flagged as being vulnerable.


I had to add this for it to work in my old ubuntu 12-server; with either of min/max-combination SMBv1 is enabled but with both it works fine.

[global]
min protocol = SMB2                                                                                 
max protocol = SMB2                                                                                 
client min protocol = SMB2
client max protocol = SMB2

While I'm not sure where SMB1 fits in (My guess is CORE), here is the order of protocols from "man smb.conf"

   max protocol (G)
       The value of the parameter (a string) is the highest protocol level that will be supported by the server.
       Possible values are :
       ·   CORE: Earliest version. No concept of user names.
       ·   COREPLUS: Slight improvements on CORE for efficiency.
       ·   LANMAN1: First
            modern version of the protocol. Long filename support.
       ·   LANMAN2: Updates to Lanman1 protocol.
       ·   NT1: Current up to date version of the protocol. Used by Windows NT. Known as CIFS.
       ·   SMB2: Re-implementation of the SMB protocol. Used by Windows Vista and newer.

   min protocol (G)
       The value of the parameter (a string) is the lowest SMB protocol dialect than Samba will support. Please refer to the max
       protocol parameter for a list of valid protocol names and a brief description of each. You may also wish to refer to the C
       source code in source/smbd/negprot.c for a listing of known protocol dialects supported by clients.
       If you are viewing this parameter as a security measure, you should also refer to the lanman auth parameter. Otherwise, you
       should never need to change this parameter.
       Default: min protocol = CORE
       Example: min protocol = NT1