For about two week I've been intermittently unable to access my share until I reboot, at which point it worked for a bit.

Since yesterday, I just can't access it at all, I just get a "Windows cannot access \\TOWER". Even after rebooting and even keeping it off all day today, it still won't work.

But I just tried it on Steam deck and I can connect there all fine.

I've saw in the log that every minute or so I get a hundred of those errors from the IP of this computer.

Jun 16 19:27:09 Tower nginx: 2025/06/16 19:27:09 [error] 7709#7709: *38398 limiting requests, excess: 20.653 by zone "authlimit", client: 192.168.1.230, server: , request: "PROPFIND /login HTTP/1.1", host: "tower"
Jun 16 19:27:09 Tower nginx: 2025/06/16 19:27:09 [error] 7709#7709: *38400 limiting requests, excess: 20.631 by zone "authlimit", client: 192.168.1.230, server: , request: "PROPFIND /login HTTP/1.1", host: "tower"
Jun 16 19:27:09 Tower nginx: 2025/06/16 19:27:09 [error] 7709#7709: *38402 limiting requests, excess: 20.609 by zone "authlimit", client: 192.168.1.230, server: , request: "PROPFIND /login HTTP/1.1", host: "tower"
Jun 16 19:27:09 Tower nginx: 2025/06/16 19:27:09 [error] 7709#7709: *38404 limiting requests, excess: 20.588 by zone "authlimit", client: 192.168.1.230, server: , request: "PROPFIND /login HTTP/1.1", host: "tower"

I found a post suggesting to use tcpview to find what is doing the calls.

It's from a process called schost.exe, does a batch of 100 calls at the same time every minute or so.

Any idea what could be doing that? A bit lost here.

Edited June 17, 20251 yr by devilwarriors
purging whitespaces

If you are using Windows 11 24H23 see below:

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

I'm on windows 10, also to be clear it's not a new windows install, it's been working fine for years.

Though thinking about it, it does kind of started around the time windows did an update. I'm still on windows 10 tho, it wasn't the windows 11 update, I've been ignoring that one.

Edit: And I do have SMB signing enabled and it was previously properly set up on this machine by having the same password as my user on windows like you link describes. I don't want other people on this network to have access to those shares so disabling it wouldn't be an option.

Edited June 17, 20251 yr by devilwarriors

Read this post and the two in this thread:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/191221-smb-and-samba-and-unraid-and-windows/#findComment-1561581

So I do have it set to private and I looked in the credential manager and I can indeed see the credential for my NAS server. With TOWER as the network address.

3 hours ago, devilwarriors said:

So I do have it set to private and I looked in the credential manager and I can indeed see the credential for my NAS server. With TOWER as the network address.

Then look at the Windows client with this command:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/170027-smb-windows-settings-available-through-power-shell-and-linux-samba-tools-informational-posting/#findComment-1441603

and at the Unraid server connection with

smbstatus

as described in this post:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/170027-smb-windows-settings-available-through-power-shell-and-linux-samba-tools-informational-posting/#findComment-1545332

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-SmbClientNetworkInterface

Interface Index RSS Capable RDMA Capable Speed  IpAddresses                                Friendly Name
--------------- ----------- ------------ -----  -----------                                -------------
20              False       False        1 Gbps {fe80::85cb:98c2:bc87:82bc}                Local Area Connection
7               False       False        1 Gbps {fe80::d76:4935:570c:9565, 192.168.1.230}  Ethernet
22              False       False        0  bps {fe80::17ef:e2d0:f1b1:bd24}                WiFi
14              False       False        0  bps {fe80::791d:739b:c6ec:1a2}                 Local Area Connection* 1
4               False       False        0  bps {fe80::f50b:d9c5:f10e:91c4, 192.168.137.1} Local Area Connection* 10
17              False       False        3 Mbps {fe80::a948:2a38:36b5:c55d}                Bluetooth Network Connection 3


PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-SmbShare

Name   ScopeName Path       Description
----   --------- ----       -----------
ADMIN$ *         C:\Windows Remote Admin
C$     *         C:\        Default share
D$     *         D:\        Default share
E$     *         E:\        Default share
F$     *         F:\        Default share
G$     *         G:\        Default share
H$     *         H:\        Default share
IPC$   *                    Remote IPC
S$     *         S:\        Default share
Users  *         C:\Users

Hmm, not really seeing anything related to my NAS, and I'm not really sure how to interpret that information.

edit: `Get-SmbConnection` return nothing.

Edited June 19, 20251 yr by devilwarriors

Generate the diagnostics file and upload it in a NEW post in this thread.