Windows 10 connecting to external SMB share

Question

I currently have a Synology NAS at my office that I wish to connect to remotely with SMB. This works perfectly fine on my MacBook, I use finder to connect with smb:\\<domainname>\<share>, but I cannot do the same on the Windows 10 machine. The network environment is exactly the same. I tried mapping a networking drive with \\<IP>\<share> and \\<domainname>\<share> but it fails to connect every time. Any suggestions on how to get it to work?

Thanks in advance,

Solution 1

You must use backslashes and not forwardslashes:

 \\<domainname>\share 

Solution 2

Not enough details provided, so many reasons can be behind this problem which looks to be related to the Windows machine. Try to verify these steps :

1. Check if NetBIOS is active on the machine : Activate NetBIOS
2. Check smb version : SMB version Check
3. Check your firewall and settings related.
4. Check the rights in the NAS server : the user you are connecting with in Windows has the rights to access that folder.

Note that smb/CIFS has many issues with Windows.

Comments

[Gundamire]

Oh sorry, that was a typo in my original original question, I’ll fix it now!

[Greg Askew]

NetBIOS is not required to access a share. It is also a security problem and should not be enabled.