I enable either Global-level or Share-level encryption on Win 2012 and try to access the encrypted share from a Non-SMB3 client (Win 7). As we know, "RejectUnencryptedAccess"by default is TRUE in Win 2012. So any unencrypted access (ie, connection from Win 7 client) will be rejected with a STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED message in either Session Setup Response or Tree Connect Response based on whether Server-level encryption or Share-level encryption is enabled. There is no problem here, it works as expected.
But when "RejectUnencryptedAccess" is set to FALSE in Win 2012, as per the documentation, the connection should be established and share be accessed without any error or denial. But seems that is not the case with me.
Neither I get any Access Denied error nor the Share is opening.
On further looking at the SMB2 Packet capture, the Session Setup and Tree Connect Responses were successful. After that, there were several "Create Request File: wkssvc" and "Create Response File: wkssvc" packets.
Can someone confirm if this is the case / is it expected behavior / or am I missing something?