[REQUEST] 24H2 will not reconnect to mapped drives even with passwords

[ell]

Hi, I have two pc's both on win 11 24H2 now since I just upgraded the second to win 11. Mapped drives won't connect. Both had local accts with no passwords. I tried to reconnect the mapped drives, it asked for credentials, disconnected the drives, cannot reconnect even after adding passwords to both pcs. Setting are still open passwords not required, just keeps asking for credentials
AllowInsecureGuestAuth, set its value data to 1, still asking for credentials, anybody have a fix for this? driving me nuts

 

[Markverhyden]

What mapped drives? You mean to each other? Do they show up inside the Network map? Did you verify if network discovery is turned on? Are they both on the same network? aka Private or Public? Personally I've stopped sharing entire drives. My preference is to share out folders on the drive.

 

[ell]

Sorry I was rather vague but getting behind. Yes I'm just sharing folders from one PC to another on my home network this shouldn't be this hard I've done it a million times should I disconnect the host and start over from scratch?

 

[Kitten Kong]

Network set as public or private?

 

[britechguy]

As a side note, you might want to consider "force updating" to 25H2 after doing the simple checks before doing any heavy lifting.

I've had zero issues with it, and were it to somehow "break something" related to what you're currently fixing, it saves doubling the work. For most of us 25H2 is a big yawn, as the changes are not to any end user features, but for IT central administration.

 

[ell]

Network set as public or private?

I've got sharing for both now, passwords off. Anything I need to do special with the host? I've just been tampering with the newly upgraded pc trying to access it

 

[ell]

What mapped drives? You mean to each other? Do they show up inside the Network map? Did you verify if network discovery is turned on? Are they both on the same network? aka Private or Public? Personally I've stopped sharing entire drives. My preference is to share out folders on the drive.

Hi Mark, I just shared a couple folders on my win 11 #1 pc on my home wifi to my win 10 pc no troubles connecting or staying connected, I just mapped them as drives in the win 10. Then i upgraded the win 10 to 11 (they are both 24H2) and then they appeared with and x on them om the new 11 install so I deleted them and tried to remap them there, no go, credentials request and even after adding passwords to both pcs still asking for network credentials??. Still scratching my head

 

[ell]

As a side note, you might want to consider "force updating" to 25H2 after doing the simple checks before doing any heavy lifting.

I've had zero issues with it, and were it to somehow "break something" related to what you're currently fixing, it saves doubling the work. For most of us 25H2 is a big yawn, as the changes are not to any end user features, but for IT central administration.

Do you have local accounts sharing in 25h2 without passwords? I just read where 22h2 requires both shared accounts must have passwords and password protected sharing has to be turn on.

 

[Markverhyden]

Hi Mark, I just shared a couple folders on my win 11 #1 pc on my home wifi to my win 10 pc no troubles connecting or staying connected, I just mapped them as drives in the win 10. Then i upgraded the win 10 to 11 (they are both 24H2) and then they appeared with and x on them om the new 11 install so I deleted them and tried to remap them there, no go, credentials request and even after adding passwords to both pcs still asking for network credentials??. Still scratching my head

Earlier I couldn't be very blabby since I was tied up and she wasn't very nice.....

But seriously. Those are things I mentioned since I have run into problems with major upgrades. Like tanking sharing. I've found toggling Discovery off, reboot then on again works sometimes. I've also checked off the different credentials box. I also make sure the users are all admins. Of course this is not what I would do for a customer. Personally I have my own M365 Sharepoint as well as an on prem ownCloud server.

 

[ell]

Earlier I couldn't be very blabby since I was tied up and she wasn't very nice.....

But seriously. Those are things I mentioned since I have run into problems with major upgrades. Like tanking sharing. I've found toggling Discovery off, reboot then on again works sometimes. I've also checked off the different credentials box. I also make sure the users are all admins. Of course this is not what I would do for a customer. Personally I have my own M365 Sharepoint as well as an on prem ownCloud server.

These are my home pcs so I tend to get a "little" reckless I'm getting seriously annoyed with win 11, I'm trying a bunch of gpedits and registry tweaks, this is so dumb MSFT I use a laptop for serving my audiobookshelf and videos on plex server, now that ones acting up after an update, doing a system restore right now