Samba Frustrations

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for some reason the forum keeps putting the emoticon

Emoticons are special character sequences, and generally start with :

I avoid the accidental emulation by bolding the colons - I took the liberty of doing that with your post.

On the main issue, turning on SMB1 is done in Windows 10 by

• Entering turn Windows in the search bar.  Turn Windows features on or off should appear at the top.  Select it.
• Scroll down the features list, and you will find SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support.  Click on the + next to the checkbox.
• Then you will see SMB 1.0/CIFS Client and SMB 1.0/CIFS Server as separate entries. 
• To simply access the NAS, check the client box and click ok.

If you want to back up a PC share to the NAS with the Frontview backup jobs, you'll need to enable the SMB 1.0/CIFS server also.  That carries a higher security risk for the PC, so I suggest using a different way to back up the PC (Acronis TrueImage, FreeFileSync, or some other package that runs on the PC).

After you enable the SMBv1 client, you might also find that you need to enter NAS credentials into the Windows Credential Store.  If your NAS isn't using user-mode authentication, you should switch to that mode.