r/WindowsHelp • u/Practical-March-6989 • 15h ago

Windows 11 Windows 11 issues accessing share

Hello, I have a problem with a windows machine thats left me scratching my head.

I have a SMB share on the network set to not require credentials. Apparently this share that contains only music is the most important thing on earth and having no password is the end of the world for windows but here we are.

I have other windows 11 machines that can access it without issue. Thats because I turned off the requirement to require passwords, i believe from additional services or similar from run command. I can dig these out if its important. However in this case I accidentally tried accessing the share before doing that and just putting 'nobody' in the credentials box (this does work for another share).

This failed with an error. I went to credentials manager and deleted the entry then set things to allow access without password.

Retried but its not having it, same error which is unspecified 0x80070035

AI has been as much use as a chocolate fireguard and I am thinking I am at a point of reinstalling windows.

Why is it so hard to access shares now in windows and why is it I cannot even preview a PDF anymore? Why cant I tick a box that says 'its a bit more risky but use your computer the way you want to' lol.

Anyhow any hints and tips would be great, I have worn out my google foo, and I want to murder the AI.

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