When I try to access \\rock\data on my Windows 11 machine, I am presented with a login screen, as far as I know there are no user accounts on ROCK and I cannot find a way to bypass the authentication screen.
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My home network is mainly wired, Unifi Dream Machine Pro is the router, with a Unifi Pro switch and access points. I have all my devices on the same VLAN (the ROCK, storage and client machines). I can ping the ROCK machine just fine, and I can access the ROCK interface from the browser, but I cannot access the storage via a run command.
Hi @thijazi,
Thanks for reaching out to us about this issue. Unfortunately @Suedkiez is correct. We are currently working on a way to work with the new windows restrictions. I cannot comment on an exact timeline but we will let you know here when we know more. In the meantime try the steps that @Suedkiez linked to and let us know the result.
I am trying to avoid hacking the registry (if possible), my workaround is to setup a CIFS mounted remote shared folder with my Synology NAS, if that works out then I can use that route to access ROCK data without messing with Windows registry. (this is how I used to access ROCK storage in the past and it is also how I access the storage on my Aurender streamer today)
Currently for some reason I am unable to access my ROCK NUC device using CIFS (it worked fine in the past). When I checked the ROCK settings, I noticed that the DNS server is set to 0.0.0.0 (I have it on DHCP), the gateway and rest is fine, but the DNS is odd…I doubt this has anything to do with the CIFS access issues but thought to check with you.
Hi @thijazi,
I’m not sure if the DNS is the issue. However we have seen users have a better experience in the past if they change their DNS servers to Cloudflare DNS, Quad9 or Google DNS. Can you please give this a try and let me know if it helps? However I suspect it may have to do with the Synology’s settings. I was able to find this KB article from Synology about mounting a remote CIFS folder. Mount Remote Folders | File Station - Synology Knowledge Center
Hi, I managed to access the Rock device after modifying the Windows Policy settings to allow anonymous access. I also figured out why accessing the Rock device via Synology CIFS remote folder option was failing.
I was using \rock\storage\data as the path, and it kept rejecting this, it was only after I used \rock\data instead of \rock\storage\data as the path that it worked.
PS. I have Cloudflare DNS settings on my WAN, 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1, the Rock device is getting it’s IP via DHCP and is still showing 0.0.0.0 for it’s DNS… Not sure if this causes any issues or not, Roon plays fine on my local network, I cannot access it via RoonARC but that is a different issue, I just upgraded to the Dream Machine Pro from Ubiquiti and I am sure I have to sort out some ports/rules to make that work.
