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RN314 OS 6.8.1 - Win10 Pro 64-bit Fall Creator 1709 - Can't access Shares
Hi A few days ago I have created a new instance of Win 10, and this has just upgraded to Win10 1709 Fall Creator. Before upgrading to 1709 the instance was connected to the shares, and the shares w...
evan2 wrote:
Win10 1709 want to access NAS via Samba,
all shares need to disable guest access on NAS.
Using credentials on all the windows systems works too, and would allow SMB guest access for other devices (older media players for instance).
There are a couple other ways to get this working on <= 6.9.1 without touching Windows group policies.
1) Create a user account on the NAS that matches the name of the user that you're logged in to Windows as. So, if your Windows account name is stephenb, create a NAS user account named stephenb.
2) Change the SMB3 Transport Encryption option to Required. (However, this will have a major performance impact on RN31x and lower desktop models)
Skywalker wrote:
1) Create a user account on the NAS that matches the name of the user that you're logged in to Windows as. So, if your Windows account name is stephenb, create a NAS user account named stephenb.
Yes, as long as you also match the passwords across the machines.
Skywalker wrote:
2) Change the SMB3 Transport Encryption option to Required. (However, this will have a major performance impact on RN31x and lower desktop models)
Also, some older devices accessing the NAS might not support SMB3. If you have that situation (and I do), those devices will no longer have access.
Though of course you will have better security with SMB3 and transport encryption.
StephenB wrote:
Skywalker wrote:
1) Create a user account on the NAS that matches the name of the user that you're logged in to Windows as. So, if your Windows account name is stephenb, create a NAS user account named stephenb.
Yes, as long as you also match the passwords across the machines.
No, that's not necessary. The account just needs to exist so it won't fall back to guest authentication.
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