Last week I setup a new Windows Server 2019 (1809) VM and took a while to get SMB up and running, thought this would be applicable for Win10 installs also.
Most of these tips are on here so I won't go into great detail about how to do them, but I thought I'd post my summary of "from scratch" changes that got me from fresh install to connected to unraid via SMB.
- Needed for guest access
GPO: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\Lanman Workstation > “Enable insecure guest logons" = Enabled
- Needed for secure/private access... guest access to same server will block secure/private server access
As my username was different to SMB configured usernames, I added the record into Credential Manager (Windows)
- Needed to 'find' server
Networking: Ensure Network profile is Private
Turn on network discovery, if setting won't save ensure these services are running (in services.msc)
· DNS Client
· Function Discovery Resource Publication
· SSDP Discovery
· UPnP Device Host
Not sure if it matters, but my VM was also configured on br0 rather than virtbr0