June 2, 20206 yr TLDR I need unraid to require a password to log on / browse \\tower. I disabled netbios, and this prevents browsing but does not bring up the password prompt in windows so I can enter the correct user account like it does when browing a windows PC. Ok, I have been chasing this around and around. Read every thread google pulled up on the topic but they all basically said to enable SMB1 in windows 10, I don't want to do this for all my machines and it would be a lot easier to simply have unraid require a password to browse the server. What I think is happening from past experiences when this machine was running windows, if I allowed guest log on on the host, windows 10 guest would not prompt for a password and because windows 10 does not allow logging on without a password, it would then just give a generic error. Everything was solved when I simply disabled all guest / unsecured access. Windows would then prompt for a user name and password and work fine. This is particularly annoying since I use a single user for all the LAN connected devices and not the individual user names for the machines. So if windows does not prompt for a user name, it will try to log on with the default and that will fail. Windows will then not allow another user name to be used until you reboot. I have used this workaround in the past, not perfect since it is only for PC's that you want to have constant access but it works. Add a credential in windows for the unraid server with the correct log in user name / password. You can use the credential manager or simply map a drive with a different user and check the box that you want it to remember the log in. The log in will apply to the whole sever, not just that share. I still would like to password protect the whole server to allow browsing from devices I don't want to have contact access and to prevent anyone on my wifi from being able to look at the server. Edited June 3, 20206 yr by TexasUnraid
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