Windows 11 Problem connecting to older NAS Drive or Network Scanner

This guide shows you a possible fix if your NAS Drive will not connect or your Network Scanner does not send scans to your PC.

[egananimalhospital]

You rock Chris! I haven't been able to connect to my old NAS drives for a year since updating to windows 11 and you solved my problem in literally 2 minutes. Thanks so much!

[LiorReem]

This video solved another issue for me - very slow opening of movies from my synology NAS. Thanks!!!

[TheYantoa]

Brilliant. Resolved in 4minutes what I struggled with for a couple of hours last night. Thank You.

[marchie]

Thank you!! Easy and clear explanation. Solved my problem very quickly after I wasted hours trying to solve it myself.

[TheJTHSaunders]

Brilliant you solved the problem in minutes and such a clear explanation

[markmingay]

Well that worked spot on. Managed to get my Seagate drive working.

[evroadwarrior]

I did this maneuver when I migrated from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and this trick worked! When I migrated from Windows 10 to 11, this trick doesn't work anymore (as all the SMB 1.0 boxes have already been checked and I've tried unchecking and checking those boxes and rebooting my machine multiple times) and I still can't access my NAS drives!

[EmmanuelNischal]

Hours of toil sorted in 5 min. Great stuff

[nachorosfer]

Thx Chris windows 11 sucks but u are the cool guy who fix their problems

[foxtrotalpha]

This might be a little unrelated but I watched this when I was trying to resolve a Windows 11 problem.

I had a problem with Windows 11 and an external Synology NAS drive and nothing seemed to allow it to be used by Windows 11 although it could see it, permissions were being rejected. I set up the sharing options and made sure the networks were private but it still didn’t work. I knew the NAS settings were good as all other devices found it and accessed it, it was a Windows 11 problem.

I saw on a QNAP forum they had a similar problem which was resolved by logging into Windows with a password and NOT the PIN. I did the same and everything was visible, connected and mounted correctly.

There is a problem with Windows 11 when using the PIN security, don’t use it if you need to share things like NAS drives. It’s a ridiculously easy solution to a problem that should not exist. I hope it helps.

[Scorpac]

I feel like SMB1.0 shouldnt be the solution since its very weak on the security side of things...

[IanBarrett]

Saved the day, thanks so much. Brilliant video

[Cretten]

I just searched for "turn on windows" and it was the top result .

[shadetreewelding]

Chris, Fucking outstanding!!!! I owe you a pint or three!!! and I will be over on your side of the pond in a few months!!!

[hudsville]

Thanks for the video. It did NOT work however. Diskstation DS213+ and a new Windows 11 Lenovo laptop.

[matthewparkes]

Nope I have those components installed, file sharing/network discovery is on and checking my router the NAS is present connected via ethernet and has a reserved IP but nothing

[hyrule]

Yes do that and all your neighbors enjoing your movies too!!Iis unsafe, in the last win 11 update smb 1 is disabled.

[sigismund]

Still on windows 7 when I get to 11 I will do the necessary.