Windows Wrangling
2026-04-09
A dumping ground for things to make Windows tolerable in the rare case I have to troubleshoot it.
Allow SMB anonymous guest access
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| Set-SmbClientConfiguration -EnableInsecureGuestLogons $true -Force
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Including Linux/Samba Shares
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| Set-SmbClientConfiguration -RequireSecuritySignature $false -Force
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Older methods that may or may not work anymore
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| reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters" /v AllowInsecureGuestAuth /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
net stop LanmanWorkstation && net start LanmanWorkstation
; OR
Restart-Service LanmanWorkstation -Force
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