I can see that the Unraid machine does boot from the USB but it is not in the network,

After the Unraid boots up the screen shows a white nonmoving cursor.

 

It was working fine but after some reboots on my Win 11 device it was no longer in the network.

 

I removed the USB and placed the backup USB in the Unraid device and still not visible

 

 

USB

 

 

Please post the diagnostics.

Now I have the following on the Unraid device

See Picture 

And see diagnostics file

 

 

tower-diagnostics-20250314-0610.zip

Link detected: no

 

No link on the NIC, check cables, switch, etc

Thanks for the advice. 

on my file explorer i can see "Tower"

I get an error message that 

Windows cannot access ||Tower

I can log into the GUI Dashboard

See below

 

What else do I need to do???

Try this:

         https://forums.unraid.net/topic/177975-formatted-my-pc-and-installed-fresh-windows-11-now-cant-access-smb-shares/#comment-1478526

 

Establishing the Login via Windows Credentials is important as Windows no longer allows a connection to any server that it does not have login credentials to.  Following the procedure in the second paragraph is the easiest way to do this. 

Thanks for the advice. 

on my file explorer i can see "Tower"

I get an error message that 

Windows cannot access ||Tower

I can log into the GUI Dashboard

See below

 

What else do I need to do???

I went to Credential manager and set up Tower 

 

With the same name and password for the GUI

Accesss denied

 

You shouldn't use root for network access to user shares. root is only for the Unraid webUI and command line.

 

Well I finally figured it out

 

I needed to add a "Shares Access" User

 

 

Thanks to all that helped

On 3/14/2025 at 5:35 PM, trurl said:

You shouldn't use root for network access to user shares. root is only for the Unraid webUI and command line.

 

 

In fact, root is not allowed to access files via SMB:

 

This information is being posted here for any other Unraid user who finds this thread in the future!