Hello all, hopefully someone is able to help me with this. I have a Truenas box with an SMB network shared drive within my LAN using Truenas local account credentials to secure the connection. This drive works just fine until I turn on Nord VPN. My mapped network drive connection immediately breaks and will not connect, but I can connect to the Truenas box without any trouble. If I turn Nord off, the drive connection is still broken I reboot, Nord is left turned off and the drive is still broken. Says, “username or password is incorrect”. It will reconnect at some point but seems random.
I am using both windows 10 and 11. I also tried accessing this drive using File Manager+ on Android. Nord breaks the connection to both the drive and the True as box when on Android. This is driving me nuts and I am not the best at networking. Any help is appreciated. Let me know if you need any more information. I am happy to provide it.
EDIT: Using IP of the Truenas box instead of the hostname resolved this issue with Nord VPN connection. Fully tested and working on multiple computers. So simple… I cant believe this took 20 minutes after posting me question to resolve. I’ve been Googling this for months and haven’t found anything. To the Reddit community, I give my thanks. You have helped maintain my sanity. This may have been an easy fix for some, but you geniuses neglected to make it easy for the common person to find.