

All your Android devices will immediately be able to connect again. …a dirty workaround: reboot your Windows file server. However when I checked that setting now, it's still set. This is what I did last time this irritated me enough to do something. It's very likely that the default LMCompatibilityLevel of Windows 7 (which is "3", meaning "Send NTLMv2 only") is causing your problem if your LaCie device is using an older SMB server (like a Samba version pre-3.0.21, for example). Reboot (or stop and restart the "Workstation" service) and see what that does.Ĭheck out Chris S comment below. Its unclear to me whether this would work on Windows 7 or not, but you could try setting the DWORD value "EnablePlainTextPassword" to "1" at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkStation\Parameters". …you could attempt to enable plaintext SMB authentication just to see if it fixes your problem, though. Suggestion: Enable Plain Text Passwords in Windows other paths which might be fruitful for you if the above isn't. Start > Run > Services.msc > select "Server" and RestartĬommand Line: Sc \\server stop LanmanServerĪ.k.a sources a.k.a.


Samsung's seems to be effective (don't remember the Nexus equivalent). On Android, make sure ES File Explorer is closed completely, not just exited (suspended). Stopping the Server service will also stop these services.ĭo you want to continue this operation? (Y/N) Make note of any dependent services that may also need to be restarted: The following services are dependent on the Server service. Doesn't require plain text passwords or any other registry hack. Restart the Server (LanmanServer) service, restart ESF on the Android device, browse to LAN connection, done.
