You can’t access this shared folder because your organization’s security policies block unauthenticated guest access

You can’t access this shared folder because your organization’s security policies block unauthenticated guest access

 You can’t access this shared folder because your organization’s security policies block unauthenticated guest access. These policies help to protect your PC from unsafe or malicious devices on the network

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/59309/you-cant-access-this-shared-folder-because-your-or.html

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/guest-access-in-smb2-is-disabled-by-default

Resolution

If you want to enable insecure guest access, you can configure the following Group Policy settings:

1. Open the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc).
2. In the console tree, select Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > Lanman Workstation.
3. For the setting, right-click Enable insecure guest logons and select Edit.
4. Select Enabled and select OK.

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You can’t access this shared folder because your organization’s security policies block unauthenticated guest access. These policies help to protect your PC from unsafe or malicious devices on the network.

MY solution:  Working !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Registry editor

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters  

==> AllowInsecureGuestAuth     set to 1

==> EnablePlainTextPassword   not changing, still 0

==> EnableSecuritySignature     set to 0    (important)

==> RequireSecuritySignature    set to 0    (important)

search: local security policy

Below is the option:

search: local group policy editor

Then,

Open Run command by Pressing windows + R and type regedit and hit enter to open the registry editor.

Now navigate to the following path.

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows

Expand the Windows Registry Key and search for LanmanWorkstation registry key, If you are not able to find the registry key, then you need to create it. Right Click on the Windows Registry Key and Choose New > Key, Name the Key as LanmanWorkstation.

Now Click on the LanmanWorkstation Registry key and from your right-hand side right-click and choose New > DWORD 32 bit Value and name it as AllowInsecureGuestAuth.

Double click on the AllowInsecureGuestAuth DWORD and set the vlaue to 1 and give OK.

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\LanmanWorkstation

Now restart the system once and check the share drive is accessible or not. 

From:

https://technoresult.com/fix-cant-access-this-shared-folder-because-your-organizations-security-policies/   (Most useful!!!!)

Shared Folder is a Folder that use virtualization software to access files on your local machine, Shared Folder allows you to share a File to a group of people who have access to the Shared Folder, If you are working in a corporate company then you already aware of how to access the shared folder and how to give permission to the other users, In Most of the Organizations Share Folder is created by a team member so that the other users form the same team can access the files with their user credentials. But sometimes organizations set policy to prevent to access any shared folder because of security reasons. If you ignore this Policy and try to connect the share folder you will get the following error. Also if you try to connect to any device, which requires the credentials of a guest instead of proper authentication you will get the following error. “You can’t access this shared folder because your organization’s security policies block unauthenticated guest access, these policies help protect your PC from unsafe or malicious devices on the network. This article will Guide to fix can’t access this shared folder because your organization’s security policies using Group Policy editor.