Can't map a shared drive to Windows anymore?

[NMF]

What am I doing wrong?

SMB is enabled. Sharing of the volume is enabled. I restarted, everything should be fine. On windows, I try to map the drive using IP and share name. Pops up to enter login and password. I enter the info for the host Mac. Error message, can't diagnose problem.

WTF? This is so infuriating.

 

[Tech198]

Whats the error message?

Also i assume sharing to physical windows machine, since the steps would be different if you were sharing to virtual environment (eg vmwrae fusion) VMWare fusion has its own sharing.. so the regular sharing of folders won't work

Sound like permission issue.. Check access access under Get info.

 

[mpainesyd]

Was a Mac used to format the shared drive? If so it's file structure might not be compatible with Windows.
In any case, there are reports in these forums of other people having difficulty after installing High Sierra or Mojave.

 

[Honza1]

Was a Mac used to format the shared drive? If so it's file structure might not be compatible with Windows.
In any case, there are reports in these forums of other people having difficulty after installing High Sierra or Mojave.

File structure of shared drive plays no role, only host system will see it - and that works. That is NOT reason for this failure.
I have not tried to share Mac drive to Windows, always the other way around. That works for me - usually. BUT, even that is not completely without weird issues, depends on security settings somehow. In some environments where users need to be authenticated by network services I had problems.
The whole smb/cifs sharing seems bit weird. Mostly it works and when not, it seems impossible to debug. Good luck, hope someone has more experience.