Enter Network Credentials

In the process of setting up a new Windows 11 desktop, I found myself wasting a day trying to solve a problem that had nothing to do with the new computer.

In testing with the new Windows 11 desktop, my old Windows 10 desktop and a Window 11 notebook, I found that I could receive shared files FROM the desktops TO the notebook, but I could not access the Notebook from either desktop. When I tried, I would get the Enter Credentials message on both desktops. I have all the setting correctly set not require a password, share and discovery set correctly too, as well as the credential manager.

I've Googled this problem and see that I am far from alone, but I'm hopping someone here has found the solution. Help!

It later versions of Windows 11. SMB guest logon is disabled. From an elevated powershell prompt you should be able to run these two commands to enable it

Note that Set-SmbServerConfiguration does not have an -EnableInsecureGuestLogons parameter.

I'm wondering if that only applies to server OS as those came straight from Microsoft docs

Yeah I see it mentioned on the page about enabling guest logons, but it's not in the docs for the cmdlet. I even changed the Windows versions on the left to look at previous versions.

I don't know how it happened, but a couple of days later I noticed that everything was working correctly again