Alan,
Confirmed. Many thanks!
But I still love to hate Windows.
Mike
Alan Bourke wrote:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50172067/sqlconnection-error-if-exe-is-e...
Looking at the above it seems to indicate that you can no longer run EXEs from shared locations when the protocol is SMB1. Having said that SMB1 was superseded in 2007 and deprecated in 2014. Samba supports up to SMB3.