June 12, 20242 yr I have 4 pools and I want everyone to have access to pool 1,2,4 and keep pool3 private. However I have to login in order to access any pool. It says guest is disabled. This is just to get access to the network share. I haven't even tried to access a pool. Is there some additional step I need to enable this? Edited June 12, 20242 yr by xokia
June 12, 20242 yr Author Looks like guest has to have a password for this to work. Is there a way to not have a password for guest?
June 12, 20242 yr Community Expert you mix up "guest" with "guests". The first is a user (which does not exist on UNRAID, you would have to create it and assign it a password), the latter is a group. If you set the share to "public", everone can access it because everyone is automatically member of "guests". Problematic will be if you mix private and public shares. This is because Windows can only keep ONE connection for all shares. You cannot be "you" and "guests" at the same time. To ship around this, you can create public shares and additionally allow read write access to "you". But you have to create a user for "you", for safety reasons the only UNRAID stock user "root" is denied everything on shares. ,
June 12, 20242 yr Community Expert The problem may well be on the Windows client end. By default, most versions of Microsoft Windows will not permit connections to a server without a valid login to that server. See here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/storage-at-microsoft/accessing-a-third-party-nas-with-smb-in-windows-11-24h2-may-fail/ba-p/4154300 To prevent login issues, it is best to set a Windows credential (In Credential Manager) on each client to each server. This will automatically log you in whenever you first contact the server. IF you have clients that only need access via a Public share, give them a login but not privileges to access any other shares. See here if you need more help: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/110580-security-is-not-a-dirty-word-unraid-windows-1011-smb-setup/ IF you read carefully, you would only need one login on your Unraid server for all the clients who only need to Public shares. (In my case, all of my shares are private BUT I have a user setup for those Windows clients which only has read-only access for that user to shares which I consider to be public. If those clients required read-write privileges, that is also possible.)
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