Windows network won't even see MyCloud Home

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Running Win11 build 24H2, and my mycloud is on the network - I can see it with every other device I have, but Windows simply won’t see it. I can type the IP into the address bar of File Explorer and I’ve enabled SMB2 in terminal, but it just doesn’t appear on my network. I even tried enabling SMB1 and that didn’t work.

Anyone have any ideas besides completely ditching windows? Can’t exactly afford a macbook at the moment, and moving to ubuntu or another linux build isn’t really an option.

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To see any unsigned network shares from Win11 24H2, you need to implement step 8 in Win11, which is simply this, can’t really get any simpler than that. If you think this is a security risk, don’t use any unsigned network share. Unsigned client side SMB is what Windows 23H2 uses by default

Set-SmbClientConfiguration -RequireSecuritySignature $false

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/filecab/accessing-a-third-party-nas-with-smb-in-windows-11-24h2-may-fail/4154300

macOS is no better, usually performing poorly with SMB signing. What is suggested above is the same as macOS

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7565683?start=90&tstart=0

The Fix (Client)

Buried in one thread on the Apple Discussion Forum is a suggestion to use the /etc/nsmb.conf file to disable client signing on the client end.

[default]

signing_required=no
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@swilliamsnd
If you own a My Cloud Home have you looked at the User Manual?

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Tried this yesterday, and the drive still doesn’t appear in anything on my computer. I know it’s on my network - I can see it in the list of connected devices plus I can access it through the web interface, but windows simply won’t see it’s there. I’m officially out of ideas and don’t even know where to look to get it working like it was.

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Really? Have you tried step 7?
The problem with asking a Windows 11 question on the WD MCH subforum is that the query contains very little information and the thread starter expects a lot of answers. The answers really reside with Microsoft and its support forum.

For example, this is what MS community subforum says:
In reply to Zunhui Han’s post on December 20, 2024

Accessing your link, the GPEDITs did it for me. The SMB connections to my 2 NAS weren’t connecting. Step 7 did it.

  1. Disable the guest fallback protection:

a. On the Start Menu search, type gpedit and start the Edit Group Policy app (i.e. Local Group Policy Editor). If you are using Home edition, skip to step e.

b. In the console tree, select Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates> Network > Lanman Workstation.

c. Double-click Enable insecure guest logons

d. Select Enabled > OK.

Rebooted all good.