Synology Wins Server Setup

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One of my machines was giving me a headache. I could not connect to my Synology file shares. All my other machines in my could just fine except this machine. Even after a reinstall it didn't work. I kept getting the error:

  1. Synology Media Server
  2. Can't Find Synology On Network

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The specified server cannot perform the requested operation.

Workgroup

The difference between the machines working and not working was the machine not working was Azure Active Directory Joined. The other machines weren't. The strange thing was, my work machines are AADJ as well but to a different Azure Active Directory (from my work). I have my personal directory since I host my families O365 mailboxes. Apparently it has to do how Windows tries to connect to shares with different methods, and after 2 it fails. It happened to be the wrong ones it tried first. I also checked if the SMB versions where setup correctly on my Synology, make sure it's not set to SMB1 since that's very insecure.

After reaching out on twitter one of my colleagues (Barry Dovans) had the simple solution. I'll link to the twitter thread so you can read why it's not working. (I have no clue what pku2u is but it was part of the issue)

  • Search for credential manager
  • Open it
  • Click on Windows Credentials
  • Click on Add a Windows Credential

Synology Media Server

Hostname

The difference between the machines working and not working was the machine not working was Azure Active Directory Joined. The other machines weren't. The strange thing was, my work machines are AADJ as well but to a different Azure Active Directory (from my work). I have my personal directory since I host my families O365 mailboxes. Apparently it has to do how Windows tries to connect to shares with different methods, and after 2 it fails. It happened to be the wrong ones it tried first. I also checked if the SMB versions where setup correctly on my Synology, make sure it's not set to SMB1 since that's very insecure.

After reaching out on twitter one of my colleagues (Barry Dovans) had the simple solution. I'll link to the twitter thread so you can read why it's not working. (I have no clue what pku2u is but it was part of the issue)

  • Search for credential manager
  • Open it
  • Click on Windows Credentials
  • Click on Add a Windows Credential

Synology Media Server

  • Add your diskstation network path and share, add your username (I used diskstationusername) and password.

Can't Find Synology On Network

  • Click OK, and now browsing to your share should just work.




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