I understand that this is something to do with Windows 11 SMB security. I have tried disabling it but Windows still does not detect it. Network sharing is on, so I don’t know what to do next. Any help would be appreciated. I am new to this community so be gentle with me!
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if by “detection” you mean you don’t see it when you browse the “network”, that appears to be a thing in Win11 25H2. You do need to set the settings to disable SMB Signing.
Open a command prompt with “run as administrator”. At the prompt run:
net view \\
where is the name you gave it in the dashboard. You should see the list of all shares. If you don’t see them, try using the IP address instead of nasname.
When you use “map network drive” use the UNC to the share you want. Enter \\\ where is the name of the specific share you want. If nasname didn’t work when using “net view”, again try the IP address.
At the command prompt, you can also use:
net use <drive_letter> \\\
If you have security on your shares (shares not PUBLIC), you may get prompted for user/password.
Thanks for your replies. Problem solved! It was a router issue and not Windows 11. I recently changed my ISP and was using a new router. I got round the problem by giving my NAS drive a new static IP address.
