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Microsoft blocked some SMB shares on Windows, but here's how you can fix it

Starting with Windows 11 version 24H2, Microsoft made some big changes to how SMB shares work on Windows machines. To provide enhanced security, these shares now require SMB signing and for most ...
Bleeping Computer

Windows 11 gets better protection against SMB brute-force attacks

Microsoft announced that the Windows 11 SMB server is now better protected against brute-force attacks with the release of the Insider Preview Build 25206 to the Dev Channel. Redmond has enabled the ...
SiliconANGLE

CISA urges immediate patching of exploited Windows SMB client vulnerability

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency has issued a warning relating to an actively targeted Microsoft Windows vulnerability that can be found in unpatched versions of Windows 10, Windows 11 ...
Neowin

Windows 11 24H2 breaks connection to some third-party NAS with SMB

Microsoft has published a reminder that the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 may break connections to third-party NAS with errors like 0xc000a000, 0x80070035, 0x800704f8, and others. Here is what to do.
Neowin

Microsoft makes SMB signing mandatory with Windows 11 Canary build 25381Microsoft makes SMB signing mandatory with Windows 11 Canary build 25381Microsoft makes SMB signing ...

Microsoft has released the newest Windows 11 Build 25381 to the Canary channel insiders today. As usual, the new build brings some new features and improvements, though there are no bug fixes.
XDA Developers on MSN

I stopped using SMB and switched to NFS for my Windows backups, and it was shockingly easy

I wasn't really expecting it to just work out of the box, but NFS is surprisingly viable.
Ars Technica

Windows 24H2 upgrade broke my network shares

I have a desktop Windows 11 box and a WD PR4100 server, used as Plex media server and a backup device. Since the recent Windows upgrade I cannot access the server as a file share anymore. I can see ...