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1. #Windows asking for password for shield how to#
2. #Windows asking for password for shield pro#
3. #Windows asking for password for shield password#

I do know that little puppy cost me about 10 hours of my life though. I have recreated the problem three times in a row now just to make sure I wasnt going to be posting garbage. I have no idea what the "Allow Guest Access" check box is for in the cifs service configuration because you don't need it to make open shares. This week, the company has released its first Windows Phone -based app, Hotspot Shield Free VPN, in the Windows.

#Windows asking for password for shield password#

What checking the "Allow Guest Access" box in the cifs service configuration will do is cause windows to stop prompting you for a username and password when you try to access the protected shares, and start giving you the error "you may not have permission. One of the most popular VPN clients is Hotspot Shield from AnchorFree. Anyone on your network will still be able to access your open shares just fine as long as you assigned the guest account and guest group to it in its permissions and as long as you checked "Allow Guest Access" in the SHARE PROPERTIES FOR THAT SHARE WHEN YOU WERE CREATING IT. When you are configuring the cifs service (the little wrench next to cifs in services) make sure that you DO NOT check the "Allow Guest Access" box. And for protected shares make a username and group of your choice and when you make that share make sure the directory its sharing has permissions for that user and group and of course DO NOT check the "Allow Guest Access" box.

#Windows asking for password for shield pro#

I have windows 7 Pro on 2 computers on my home network, I am the administrator on all the computers I do not. Just set up your open shares with guest as the user and make sure you check "Allow Guest Access" when you're setting up that share. Windows security keeps asking for password. I tried enabling a certain key in the registry (cant remember the key-name) and rebooting, but that didnt help.

#Windows asking for password for shield how to#

I won't go into how to set everything up, just follow the freenas user guide and you'll be fine. However, I did a clean windows 10 install of another desktop and the exact same share keeps asking me for authentication now and wont accept any input I give it.

(when you click the little wrench next to "cifs" under services) Turns out the key to the problem is the "Allow Guest Access" check box in the cifs service setup.

The only way I could access my protected share was to map it as a network drive and thats not how I wanted to do it. Network path not found" when I was trying to access my protected shares by browsing to them on the network. If you are trying to set up multiple shares where you want some open to everyone and some protected with a username and password, and you don't want to have to map your protected shares as network drives then hopefully this will help.Īt first when I set up freenas windows was prompting me for a username and password for my protected shares, and I could get in just fine to my open shares, however after some fiddling around all of a sudden I started getting "you may not have permission.