Not able to access public SMB share on my unraid server from Windows 11

[DrBear]

Hello everybody!

 

One more question: I have two Folders in my share (export: "yes", security: "public), that I want to access from my Win 11 desktop over the local network. My access to the unraid dashboard and to the dockers works without problems, but whenever I want to access the public folders over the local network in the Windows Explorer, I get the error message that username or password are incorrect, or I am prompted to insert my network credentials. If I enter a valid user and password, the login is rejected.

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Thanx a lot for your help!

mastermind-diagnostics-20240807-2130.zip

[Frank1940]

First, read this:

 

      https://forums.unraid.net/topic/170027-smb-windows-settings-available-through-power-shell-informational-posting/#comment-1441603

 

And do the Get-SmbClientConfiguration and look at the "Enable"  settings.  (Most WIN11 computers will have 'EnableInsecureGuestLogons" set to 'False'.)

 

You can probably fix all of your SMB problems (now and in the future) by setting up SMB as described here:

 

     https://forums.unraid.net/topic/110580-security-is-not-a-dirty-word-unraid-windows-1011-smb-setup/

 

Once you do this, you will not need Public access.  You can set those Shares to "Secure" if you have other computers that do need public read access to files.  I realize that there are hacks which will get you around some of these restrictions on Guest access but MS is determined to shut them down.  (The corporate world is insisting on these measures to improve security!)

 

IF you are getting the 'username or password' error message, run the second command in that thread.  It show if you have already established a connection to the server.  (Windows will only allow a single login onto any server.  Second connections typically result in the type of message..)

Edited August 14 by Frank1940