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Well, I'm not sure what happend, but I haven't had theissue for quite a while. I'm assuming MS fixed something.
Network shares stop working
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I work with different offices/clients. None of them are on a domain, just workgroups. Since early this year, I've had issues with workstations losing network connectivity to shared folders. Sometimes it's because Network Discovery just decides to disable itself. Turning it back on usually works. I can connect via IP, but not UNC. Pinging returns the proper IP address. There aren't any special network configurations going on. DHCP/DNS is coming from the router. The only fix I have found is to flush/register the DNS, and rebooting the pc.
Any suggestions that don't require digging around the registry or changing things that shouldn't need to normally be changed?
Any suggestions are welcome.
Windows for home | Windows 11 | Files, folders, and storage
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Suporte - CRCPN Petrolina Suporte 20 Reputation points2026-02-21T12:57:41.0133333+00:00 426
-----------COMMANDS--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Open REGEDIT as administrator (ADDRESS HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - Software - Microsoft - MSLicensing - delete everything (only the folders inside MSLicensing) Run PowerShell as administrator and type: set-smbclientconfiguration -RequireSecuritySignature $false set-smbclientconfiguration -EnableInsecureGuestLogons $true
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Arnaud Hertz 0 Reputation points2026-05-11T22:13:49.8566667+00:00 The best advice found on the net to access my SMB server (mycloud home by WD) from windows 11 family.
I deleted with regedit MSlicensing folders and I removed the requirement for securitysignature with powershell. I didn't succeed enabling Insecure guest login : as a matter of fact it was not necessary ! Now it's working well.
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