VelcroBP Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Can someone ELI5 an annoyance I have accessing my shares via SMB and File Explorer from a Win11 PC on my network? Basically, why does it sometimes access the "TOWER" right away, but other times I get "ACCESS DENIED"? I have an uNRaid user that matches my Windows user. In File Explorer on Windows, the shares show up in the navigation pane's "Network" group as "TOWERNAME". IF that's displayed, I can just double click and get right into the shares as expected. Sometimes, however, I have to expand the "Network" group. If that's the case and I try to click on "TOWERNAME", I get Access Denied. Also, the 2nd scenario seems to always be the case when accessing vie a "Browse..." menu for saving files. In either case, I am always able to access if I type the IP address into File Explorer's address bar regardless of how TOWERNAME displays in the navigation pane. I'm a networking idiot so I don't know if this is due to my bad configuration or just quirk in how windows does SMB? Quote Link to comment
Kilrah Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Name resolution is always a bit flaky, accessing by IP is best. Quote Link to comment
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