Windows 10: Cannot 'Map Drive' to share on NAS after Windows 10 update

I use 'map drive' on Windows 10 to access various shares on my Synology NAS.

On the desktop which uses Windows 10 Pro (the other 2 devices use Home) I have just had to clean install Windows 10 to version 1903.

I now find that Windows on the desktop now refuses to let me connect to any shares on the NAS because these shares use an 'outdated and unsafe protocol' - SMB1. It tells me I need SMB2 or higher (I know nothing of this level of function).

Is there a way of forcing use of SMB1 or would downgrading to Windows 10 Home on the desktop enable me to use drive mapping? (This is a home network and Pro isn't really necessary).

Thanks.

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Can see NAS but cannot access it or mapped shares after recent update


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Perhaps NetBIOS needs enabling ? ^^^^^ ie win10 sets it to Default not Enabled which does not always work

Perhaps NetBIOS needs enabling ?

 

Mapping network devices such as NAS drives.

Dear Support,

I am having a massive problem with finding NAS devices on my network so I map them as network drives.

I had not changed any network configurations, but now I do not see my NAS drives in the list under "Network", nor can I map my NAS drives.

My previous mappings are fine and work OK. However, even the drives that were previously mapped that work OK do not appear in the list for the options of mapping network drives now.

I am running Win 10 latest version on an Intel 7th gen CPU, wired Ethernet.

I have checked to see that all my firmware is up to date, including router, NAS, network driver. I have checked that sharing is on, and turned off firewalls, made my network type private. I have searched every forum and technical note, and tried every video
out there, but I am at the end of my tether with this problem.

The problem seemed to occur after updating Windows. Everything was working fine before, completely flawlessly.

I am basically now completely fed up with the situation, and my only option left is to move all my computers to Linux. The problem has basically cut off access to data I need to work and is costing me money and time. I basically just want to cry as there
is no solution anywhere that I find. The Windows update has broken my network.

If anyone has any answers, please let me know.

Thanks for your time in advance.

Kind regards, Ben.

 

Map NAS drive Windows 10

I see other people noting this issue but on Windows 10 I am no longer able to log into my NAS drive which is sitting on a WiFi router, I was able to do this easily from Windows 8, but sadly not after the upgrade. The issue seems to be the authentication
process that Windows 10 wants to use if you try and map the drive. I can see the NAS drive but just not able to log in. It looks like a domain issue. I have had a read of the posts and this seems quite common, but no workable solutions appear to be proposed
that I can find. Any suggestions?