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happyshow
Copper Contributor
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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Jegue
Copper Contributor
Aug 18, 2020

happyshow 

 

 

Ok this fixes the problem...

 

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters] "AllowInsecureGuestAuth"=dword:1

 

 
The gp setting does nothing.
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Bolter
Copper Contributor
Aug 19, 2020

Jegue 

 

Tried your suggestion but didn't work.

I had it working for 1 day after updating to 2004 by changing group policy 'Enable insecure guest logons' to 'enabled'.

But after reboot, it no longer works. Tried the reg parameter fix you suggested as it didn't exist in registry, but still doesn't work.