<p>With Windows 10 v1803 or Spring Creators update released I have decided to do a fresh installation on my PC. Once everything was done I have tried to map network share on my Popcorn Hour VTEN media streamer. Unfortunately, I wasn&#8217;t able to do so as it seems that Microsoft disabled SMB1 protocol with this release.</p>
<p>When I have tried to map a network drive I have received the following error message:</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t connect to the file share because it&#8217;s not secure. This share requires the obsolete SMB1 protocol, which is unsafe and could expose your system to attack.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/smb1.png"><img class="alignnone wp-image-2588 size-full" title="You can't connect to the file share" src="https://www.wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/smb1.png" alt="You can't connect to the file share" width="558" height="208" /></a></p>
<p>Since Popcorn Hour is using Linux and the latest available update is installed I didn&#8217;t have many options to fix this problem. In order to fix this, I had to install and enable the SMB1 protocol by using Powershell.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s how to do it:</p>
<p>Run Powershell command processor in elevated mode (run as admin)<br />
Type the following command:</p>
<p><strong>get-</strong>windowsoptionalfeature<strong> -online &#8211;</strong>featurename<strong> smb1protocol</strong></p>
<p>Once SMB has been installed please type the following command to activate it:</p>
<p><strong>enable-</strong>windowsoptionalfeature<strong> -online &#8211;</strong>featurename<strong> smb1protocol</strong></p>
<p>Once done, press <strong>Y</strong> and hit enter to restart your computer.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/smbv1.png"><img class="alignnone wp-image-2589 size-full" title="You can't connect to the file share" src="https://www.wincert.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/smbv1.png" alt="You can't connect to the file share" width="937" height="443" /></a></p>
<p>Please have in mind that <strong>SMBv1</strong> protocol is now obsolete and that Microsoft strongly advises consumers to use <strong>SMB2</strong> or higher protocol. If you really need SMBv1 protocol like I do I would recommend you to enable SMBv1 only when you are using this network share. When you don&#8217;t need to access the share you can disable the SMBv1 protocol with the following command:</p>
<p><strong>disable-</strong>windowsoptionalfeature<strong> -online &#8211;</strong>featurename<strong> smb1protocol</strong></p>