[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

 

[DRPCNZ]

Try this

1. Select Start, type gpedit.msc, and select Edit group policy.
2. In the left pane under Local Computer Policy, navigate to Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\Lanman Workstation.
3. Open Enable insecure guest logons, select Enabled, then select OK.

 

[ell]

Try this

1. Select Start, type gpedit.msc, and select Edit group policy.
2. In the left pane under Local Computer Policy, navigate to Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Network\Lanman Workstation.
3. Open Enable insecure guest logons, select Enabled, then select OK.

Yup I did both already, thanks still googling...crazy

 

[DRPCNZ]

Yup I did both already, thanks still googling...crazy

Anytime I have had issues connecting to shared drives on Win 10 from Win 11, this is all I have had to do to get it working with password protection turned off.

 

[ell]

Ahhh, I think I found my problem, the server win 11 is set to PUBLIC networking!! Apparently win 10 clients don't care about that but win 11 clients do. I turned it to private but then my audiobookshelf server quit, so it has to stay public. Now I have to figure out how to connect to its shared folders, I can ping from my client pc to it but I can't see it on the network. I'm guessing I need to have both pcs public with maybe some firewall rules?

 

[Philippe]

FTP

 

[HCHTech]

Read through THIS thread. We got put through the wringer with this issue last week.

 

[ell]

Read through THIS thread. We got put through the wringer with this issue last week.

Omg msft!

 

[HCHTech]

Posting here because I've learned something new. My client that is having the problem with shared drives bought their own computers for the Windows 11 upgrade from some rando Amazon seller. This seller, whoever they were, used a cloned image on each computer and all of the computers have the same SID. (you can check this a few ways, "whoami /user" from the command prompt, for example).

The September updates that introduced this problem apparently changed how folder shares are authenticated which introduced the issue of machines with identical SIDs being unable to authenticate. I found THIS thread on Ignite where one of the comments was from a user that tested the impact of SID on the sharing problem.

If this change is the new paradigm, it also makes sense that following updates after the initial September ones reintroduce the problem.

So now I'm off to figure out what the impact of running sysprep on a configured system is. That's the only way to change the SID without using 3rd party tools. I'm going to test it on an expendible computer here to see what that process looks like and what additional problems it might cause. I will post my results here.

 

[ell]

Ok, I have info I want to share, I ran sfc (found unrepairable errors) on my win 10>win 11 home 22h2 that won't connect to my other win 11 24h22 build 26100.6899. So I'm running another in place upgrade on it now, but I decided to try the share on my workbench win 11, 24h2 build 26100.6584 too, BOTH machines have PUBLIC network profiles, which makes it harder because they are by default hidden. Heres my setup on the workbench (client) simply went to my pc>map network drive and put in the host share ip \\192.XXX.X.XX and bang, there it was! Chalk it up to good ol system corruption I guess. I do only have a password on the host, The host has the same sharing settings as the workbench client as pictured. Update: just got back to my problematic win 11 (build 26100.6899) set it up just like the others and rebooted....try to map the drive again, still asking for password and not accepting any, even when I add one to both machines credentials. Cleared credentials, still asking AGH.

this part is odd, my VMware machine in this pc is mapped to it no prob? I'm going to try and create a new admin user now. unless its something with my wifi adapter?