My Unraid server, personal desktop, and work laptop are all connected to my home network. The server and my desktop are part of the "WORKGROUP" workgroup. My work laptop is part of my work's domain (xx.companyname.com). I can access the Unraid shares from my desktop with no issues by opening up TOWER under Network on the left side of file explorer or by mapping a network drive. On my work laptop, I can see TOWER under Network, but I'm unable to access anything, basically saying the network path is not available whenever I try to open TOWER.

 

Things I've tried:

• Made an Unraid user with same login name and password as my work laptop
• Made an Unraid user with completely different name/password as work laptop (and tried accessing via checking "Use different credentials"
• Enabled insecure logins in Windows
• Cleared all Windows Credentials for TOWER multiple times

 

It's weird that I can see TOWER in explorer but it won't let me access it. Also, I can access the server GUI in a web browser no problem.

 

Anyone know why I'm unable to access my server from my work laptop? Is it because I'm not in the workgroup of the server?

 

Work laptop is Windows 10 Enterprise, build 19044.

Desktop is Windows 10 Professional, build 19043

One thing to try.  Go to this thread:

 

        https://forums.unraid.net/topic/110580-security-is-not-a-dirty-word-unraid-windows-10-smb-setup

 

Look in the second post for the PDF file called "How To #5-Adding a Windows Credential"  and do that.  Make sure that is the only credential for your Unraid server.  Then reboot the Windows 10 Computer.  (Windows will only allow a single login from a client to each server.  An attempt to establish a second login often result in a very cryptic error message.   I also see that you tried using your Windows credentials which is one thing that often solves this problem.)

 

Also in the first post is the complete document for setting up your Unraid server and Windows computers so that they work together.   I don't have any real experience with Domain server setup and Enterprise Windows.  I also don't know how your IT department has setup your 'work laptop'.  I can see why they might actually want (and try) to prevent you from doing exactly what you are trying to do.  (Corporate Security is a very serious business these days and, if you were to compromise that security, the consequences could be severe!)

Thanks for the tip. I tried that and got the same error. I also tried to go through their full PDF and follow the step by step process but got stuck on Step 1 when trying to make the shortcut - Get the same error "network path not available." It seems like my company has locked down samba access outside of their domain. Oh well, I was mostly trying to do this as a convenience thing anyways.