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radon85
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Dec 14, 2019
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Readyshare not working Windows 10.

I'm tired of waiting on the SMB1 fix.  Am I missing something or wouldn't it be easier if Netgear simply added support for an additional user (other than guest and admin)?
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    radon85
    Jan 29, 2020

    For what it's worth, I have submitted a proposal.  link

     

    I'd like to thank IrvSp for all his valuable input and prior work!

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radon85
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Dec 16, 2019

My understanding is that insecure guest logins have been disabled; see link.  As an admin, I have no issue accessing the share.  However, my users are unable to access the share as a guest.  Since "admin"/password works but "guest" (with no password) appear to be an issue, I'm simply suggesting support for an alternate user account with a password; e.g. "user"/password.  This "user " account would simply provide access to the share as "guest" did in the past; it would not allow allow the user to log into the router.

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IrvSp
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Dec 16, 2019
radon85 wrote:

My understanding is that insecure guest logins have been disabled; see link.  As an admin, I have no issue accessing the share.  However, my users are unable to access the share as a guest.  Since "admin"/password works but "guest" (with no password) appear to be an issue, I'm simply suggesting support for an alternate user account with a password; e.g. "user"/password.  This "user " account would simply provide access to the share as "guest" did in the past; it would not allow allow the user to log into the router.

Oh, by the way, look at this MS link, https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4046019/guest-access-in-smb2-disabled-by-default-in-windows-10-and-windows-ser and from it:

 

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In Windows 10, version 1709, Windows 10, version 1903, Windows Server, version 1709, Windows  Server, version 1903, and later versions of Windows, the SMB2 client no longer allows the following actions:
 
  • Guest account access to a remote server
  • Fallback to the Guest account after invalid credentials are provided
SMBv2 has the following behavior in these versions of Windows:
  • Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education no longer allow a user to connect to a remote share by using guest credentials by default, even if the remote server requests guest credentials.
  • Windows Server 2016 Datacenter and Standard edition no longer allow a user to connect to a remote share by using guest credentials by default, even if the remote server requests guest credentials.
  • Windows 10 Home and Professional editions are unchanged from their previous default behavior.
If you try to connect to devices that request credentials of a guest instead of appropriate authenticated principals, you may receive the following error message: 
 
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Again, the credentials are from Windows to a Windows Server, not router. Guest Credentials usually means no USERID or PASSWORD in this context, that is anyone can access the server.
 
Probably most of us run W10 Home or Pro if using Windows (older version did not have this change), so it wouldn't be part of your problems either.