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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.

Nice link,  you might notice I was active in there too (2018-02-01 10:04 AM on....).

 

You are confusing a few things... Guest Network on the router and Guest access to a share under W10 PC attached to a LAN.

 

My R8000 is not active right now, but the GUEST SSID has the capability to be isolated from YOUR LAN. There is a ALLOW setting if I'm remembering correctly you have to check. In that case, Guests will have COMPLETE access to everything the NORMAL (your word is ADMIN it seems) can access, all SHARES on ANY device as well as the USB drive on the router.

 

Of course, this might not be what you want. However, the PC's that have shares can be set to only allow share access via UID and PC.