# Windows Sharing suddenly stopped working

**URL:** <https://forum.freenas-community.org/t/windows-sharing-suddenly-stopped-working/195>\
**Category:** Sharing\
**Created:** [January 22, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.freenas-community.org/t/windows-sharing-suddenly-stopped-working/195 "2022-01-22T18:10:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![atrdriver](https://forum.freenas-community.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@atrdriver](https://forum.freenas-community.org/u/atrdriver)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.freenas-community.org/t/windows-sharing-suddenly-stopped-working/195/1 "2022-01-22T18:10:36Z")

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Running FreeNAS 11.2-U8. Yesterday for some reason it lost the permissions on the pools that I share with all my windows rigs. I tried to restore my config file from when everything was working fine, and it seemed to restore OK, after about 6 or 7 reboots, but I am still not able to see my shared pools from any of my windows rigs. I have checked that SMB service is running, I am the owner of the shares, and in the classic interface when I go to the sharing tab I see the shares and Browsable to Network Clients is True, and Allow Guess Access is True. Any ideas why I all of a sudden I can’t access these shares? This is driving me nuts. Thanks 🙂