SMB authentication only required one on shared ext hd
I have two external hard drives on my network through my desktop. I routinely access videos from both via my VLC app on my apple tv, but today one of them requires SMB authentication while the other doesn't. I can login but when I use VLC via apple tv, the videos won't play even though I logged in. I tried using the VLC app on my iPhone and I can watch the videos after I authenticate the SMB.
I stopped sharing both drives and then restarted the sharing but nothing changed. I made no other changes recently. That being said, one ext drive is MBR and the other is GPT but again that wasn't recently changed. Not sure why all of a sudden SMB authentication is being required when it never was before, and only on 1 of my 2 drives.
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