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WinPE boot does not prompt for un/pw on samba shares so cannot read/write to them

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Hello,

I'm not sure why but when I used an older Acronis True Image from 2011, I could simply boot from its WinPE media and either do a backup or a restore and enter a path to a share that was on a SAMBA device, in this format for example \\ipaddress\sharename and upon hitting enter a box would appear to type in credentials.  This would work without any issue.

Now in the True Image 2017 WinPE media, if I type in this same thing no additonal authentication boxes pop up at all, so it does not proceed in showing shares / files & folders of the SAMBA based appliance.  I even tried creating a DNS entry thinking maybe this does not use ip, and while in the cmd prompt window I can ping successfully by name or IP, I just can't seem to get a SAMBA session to ask me to even authenticate.  If I try the NET USE command in the cmd window I get a system error 58 has occured.

I nave no issue typing in a windows share path.  Actually the authentication dialog box pops up immediately after I type the computer name in \\computername (I don't even get to finish typing out the path).  I can read and write to this.  Problem is on the Windows computer I can't share out a share, so I can't ever write directly to the SAMBA appliance with tons of disk space.  Basically I have to use the windows machine as a proxy, read and write images there but as its disk gets full move it off to the SAMBA based appliance.

Is there some kind of issue between Windows 7 based WinPE and Windows 10 based WinPE that is causing this?  Or is this a bug in Acronis?

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It is WinPE specific.  You need to use the net use command to map the target SAMBA share as a drive letter to gain access.

Example: net use h: "\\ipaddress\sharename" /user:username password