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At this point, please note how the IPad finds your W10 Pro device (from https://www.mowasay.com): ------------------------- Explorer Network Browsing The Computer Browser service relies on the SMBv1 protocol to populate the Windows Explorer Network node (also known as “Network Neighborhood”). This l...

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Hi ginz I powered up my Win10 Pro VM this morning and did some tests. The following articles I found useful: https://www.mowasay.com/2018/08/windows-10-2016-build-1709-1803-cannot-connect-to-smb-shares/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/troubleshoot/detect-enable-an...

Hi ginz, I do have a Win 10 VM at home (need to check the version though) - I will test it. We can treat your Win 10 workstation as a windows file server in this example, most of the code is identical to Server 2016. Give me a day or two and I will post what I find back to this forum, with powershel...

Dear ginz, yeah I can sympathise with the VLC developers as SMB prior to v3 is totally rubbish! However as users we just want things to work without major headaches and here lies the problem as there are so many versions and settings as to make testing a monumental task. So the idea from a forum VLC...

I was having issues with IOS/iPad and SMB to my Qnap NAS. I noticed authentication issues via Qnap logging so did some tests: I enabled SMB3 only on my NAS with strict authentication (no guest connection/share enumeration) Both client and server are on the same subnet. Server (qnap is wired and IOS ...