Can’t Access This Shared Folder Because Of Organization’s Security Policies – How To Fix It

 roup of people who have access to the Shared Folder. However,  if you are working in an enterprise then you already know how to access the shared folder and grant permission to the other users. Well, in some organizations team members create shared folders so that the other users from the same team can access the files using their user credentials. But certainly, enterprises set the policy to secure access to any shared folder due to security reasons. If you avoid this Policy and try to plug the shared folder you’ll then receive get the following error.

The error message saying ‘You can’t access this shared folder because your organization’s security policies block unauthenticated guest access’. Also, if you want to connect to any device, which needs the credentials of a guest rather than proper authentication you will then receive the following error. “You can’t access this shared folder because your organization’s security policies block unauthenticated guest access”. These policies help to secure your computer from unsafe or harmful devices on the network. This guide helps you to resolve can’t access this shared folder because of your organization’s security policies via the Group Policy editor.

Causes Of Error:

This error occurs in Windows 10 model 1709 or later version, because of deactivation of SMB2, and improper installation of SMB1. Well, SMB called Server Message Block. It is a networking file share protocol that is added in Windows 10 and provides the ability to write/read files and perform many other service requests to network devices. However, in windows, SMB can connect the devices that can’t execute windows, like a router with file-sharing capabilities, NAS, or Linux PC’s. After the update of Fall Creators SMB1 is considered to have a non-standard protocol which is insecure. So Microsoft plan to turn off this feature by default and then makes SMB2 as standard, And SMB2 will be turned on by default by Windows 10.

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