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I have a NAS with a SMB share in my network. On my local machine (Windows 10) I haven't saved the credentials for the NAS. Now when I'm starting up, I can see in the access logs of the NAS, that it tries to access the shares using my Microsoft account, which results in a lockout of the IP address for 5 minutes.

How do I prevent Windows 10 from trying to access the share with wrong credentials?

I already tried net use * /delete and it says that there are no entries.

I guess I could disable auto network discovery alltogether, but I'd like to avoid it.

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  • Do you see anything in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Network? Can you decrease the 5-minutes black-list on the NAS?
    – harrymc
    Commented Nov 23, 2021 at 11:48
  • @harrymc There is just the (Standard) key. Of course I could re-configure or even disable the lockout on NAS side, but I'd like to keep it as a security measure.
    – André Stannek
    Commented Nov 23, 2021 at 12:05
  • I don't have that on my computer. Does it contain anything interesting?
    – harrymc
    Commented Nov 23, 2021 at 12:49
  • @harrymc I meant the (Default) entry. It's translated in German Windows version and I didn't notice. It has not value.
    – André Stannek
    Commented Nov 23, 2021 at 13:05
  • This is a feature of Windows for mapping the network, to my knowledge not possible to disable. Try instead to add a $ at the end of the share-name, so perhaps Windows will think it's an administrative share.
    – harrymc
    Commented Nov 23, 2021 at 13:27

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Old thread but I came across it while trying to figure out why I had hundreds of thousands of log entries of my PC trying to access my NAS using my Microsoft account. Seeing Network Discovery triggered something so I went in and disabled: "Turn on automatic setup of network-connected devices." The actual network discovery is fine, but despite not only constantly failing, AND being told and loading the correct credentials in Credential Manager, Windows attempts to use the current user account to setup the network device.

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