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happyshow
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Apr 22, 2020
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Cannot access anonymous file shares after updating to Insider Preview 2004

The screen shot of my problem and specific build are attached. I updated my desktop pc to the Insider pre-release for Windows 10 2004 and now I cannot access anonymous file shares any more. Before th...
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    happyshow
    Apr 27, 2020

    I ended wiping my PC clean and performing a clean reinstall of Windows 10. I'm not enrolling in the Insider program any more with potential bugs like that. I tried at least.

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Noah00
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Jun 23, 2020

happyshow 

 

I created an account just to say that i encountered this and found that the easiest solution was to go to my linux machines that were hosting the share and adding a user for smb using:

smbpasswd -a <usersname>

then going into /etc/samba/smb.conf and adding these to the share:

guest ok = no
valid users = <users you just added to smb>

 I then restarted samba with this command for debian:

systemctl restart smbd.service

then in windows I added the shares using the user I added to samba and chose to remember the credentials. i asked my twice but i chose to remember credentials both times and it worked. 

 

obviously this isn't a solution for if you WANT to use guest access, but this will stop making windows complain about it. 

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