I am unable to connect to my NAS using Windows 11.
I am unable to connect to my NAS using Windows 11.
My new PC, which is only a month old, comes with Windows 11 already installed. My NAS, WD My Cloud EX4100, is using SMB3 and has SMB1 enabled under Windows 11. I looked at the guidance at the provided link, but it seems unclear whether SMB signing is supported, even in the most recent OS version. Thanks for the help, mictosoft.
Are you...asking a question or just venting? Either way, as that article points out, you can just disable the SMB signing requirement in Windows. Since it's Microsoft's own site and they're trying to make you do things the way they want them done, and to avoid litigation they can't even hint that you will be safe if you bypass a security feature, they make it seem like the moment you change any of these things hackers are going to suddenly inundate your home with malware and infect anything that has a power cord and the power cord itself. In reality, you're not going to be any LESS safe than you were before, and on a home network where you have a fairly secure physical network (nobody can just plug in a device without you knowing about it) and you are not a particularly valuable and known target for attack, there's no real problem with making the change and using an "unsafe" NAS.
You should disable SMBv1 though, simply because you don't need it unless you have a NAS or other storage device you need to access which doesn't support v2 or v3 at all. Anti-malware software and other mitigations ought to make it so you are still safe with it turned on, but with no need to have it enabled you're just unnecessarily adding risk.
Which specific OS version do you have on the device? It looks like SMB signing support was only added less than 3 weeks ago in 5.31.101.
24H2 now needs SMB signing, which was introduced in My Cloud 5.31.101 on May 3, 2025, and also blocks guest access. Shares will only work with a username and password. Disabling these settings often causes Microsoft to reset your preferences during updates, as it seems unintended. Very useful!
Even though that condition can be turned off, the guest access remains active by default in the non-Pro version.
nothing appears to function properly. I'm running 24H2 Build 26100.4061. I don't use a single drive and I don't have a MICOSoft account. I've tried every solution at the provided link, but I still face issues. The skeptical part is that I believe someone might be trying to push a specific setup where storage is tied together with string or vapor.
@BFG-9000 suggested verifying SMB signing and guest access. Windows 11 Pro/Enterprise blocks guest access to NAS shares, requiring a username/password for each share; it appears that even if allowed earlier, 24H2 resets this configuration. Windows 10 and earlier allowed guest access by default across all versions.