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I can connect to my SMB share fine and see the name of the drive, but when I click on the drive it asks for a username and password. I don't need one to access it on windows or OS X so I'm not sure what to enter into the box. When I leave it blank it just pops back up. The Hard drive is USB and connected to my Belkin routers USB port.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
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Did anyone get any further in solving this problem? I had the eact same problem on my win xp sp2 machine, I rebooted the ATV and havnt had an issue since. A friend of mine though is having the same issue on his win 7 machine though.
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Have you guys tried using the username/password you used to log into Windows?
Remember, in Windows, if you don't set a password, Microsoft does funny stuff to "help" protect your system from unauthorized access. Therefore, always set a password to get things back under your control. You can always have Windows auto log you in if you don't want to have to deal with logging in each time Windows boot.
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******** Solution #1 of 2 ********
On your machine shared directory, make sure you have BOTH file and share permissions, for Windows, right click Properties > Security tab & Sharing tab.....then add 'Everyone' user with read permissions.
******** Solution #2 of 2 ********
Create a new user profile on your machine (for example user=xbmc, password=xbmc), then share the folders with user/password=xbmc. Use xbmc for both user/password to access the smb share.
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2013-05-15, 03:48
(This post was last modified: 2013-05-15, 03:48 by element_clarity.)
In my case I was only having problems with access to an external USB drive. I had no problem with access to folders on internal hard drives. I used Solution #1 above for the external drive and added "Everyone" as a user and read/write permissions. This did the trick. I had no luck with Solution #2.
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JonSpencer,
Can you explain how you were able to determine your modified username for windows 10 ?
I had the same issue but just made another account, I would prefer not to have the extra account.
Thank you,
Devin.
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Correct - SMB2 (and SMB3) are secure, but need username/password for access. They also do not allow for browsing to find servers (although do of course allow browsing within servers once the connection is made).
SMB1 does have browsing and anonymous access capabilities, but also has huge security holes (search for "Wannacry") and is depreciated and no longer supported or recommended (and providers like Microsoft are actively doing all they can to remove and uninstall it with every update to their OS's).
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My setup is freenas 11 with SMB share and I had same issue- credentials request poping out on unrestricted share.
I just changed the settings "force guest access" in SMB settings under advanced.
Since that It works.
) I finally in desperation attached my external hard drive to my router (Fritz box), which also has a media center functionality. Voila, xmbc accepted the share without asking for a username or password. Only problem was that I have most of the movies as iso files, each saved neatly in its individual folder, and would like to keep it that way. The only files it found were avi files, which seems to be due to the fact that the Fritz box doesn't support iso files.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
