Activating smb direct in Windows 11 Pro not working

Hello Dennis Gebauer,

Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.

You can try the steps below and check whether they help.

1.Please check if your machine is connected to Internet, you can try to make your machine connected to Internet.

2.Enabled the SMB Direct using command below (run PS as Administrator):

Dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:SMBdirect

3.Please sign in using another administrator and check if it helps.

4.Please check if you can turn on other features on the same machine.

5.If your machine is in domain environment, may be the domain policy blocked the feature installation.

6.Check if SMB Direct is installed by command.

Dism /online /Get-FeatureInfo /FeatureName:SMBDirect

Enable or Disable Windows Features Using DISM

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/enable-or-disable-windows-features-using-dism?view=windows-11

I hope the information above is helpful.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to let us know.

Best Regards,

Daisy Zhou

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Hi,

i tried the command but it was not successfull.

There are several Windows 10 machines in the domain that got the feature enabled.

I can enable/disable other features on the windows 11 machines.

Here is the dism protocol :

CDISMPackageManager::Initialize

2025-03-13 07:13:18, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Loaded servicing stack for online use. - CDISMPackageManager::CreateCbsSession

2025-03-13 07:13:18, Info CSI 00000001 Shim considered [l:123]'??\C:\windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-servicingstack_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.26100.3321_none_a52dfe0d774762b3\wcp.dll' : got STATUS_SUCCESS

2025-03-13 07:13:18, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Processing the top level command token(enable-feature). - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::Private_ValidateCmdLine

2025-03-13 07:13:18, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Attempting to route to appropriate command handler. - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::ExecuteCmdLine

2025-03-13 07:13:18, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Routing the command... - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::ExecuteCmdLine

2025-03-13 07:13:18, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Encountered the option "featurename" with value "SMBdirect" - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::Private_GetPackagesFromCommandLine

2025-03-13 07:13:18, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Encountered an unknown option "featurename" with value "SMBdirect" - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::Private_GetPackagesFromCommandLine

2025-03-13 07:13:18, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Initiating Changes on Package with values: 5, 7 - CDISMPackage::Internal_ChangePackageState

2025-03-13 07:13:18, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 CBS session options=0x40100! - CDISMPackageManager::Internal_Finalize

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Info CSI 00000001 Shim considered [l:123]'??\C:\windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-servicingstack_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.26100.3321_none_a52dfe0d774762b3\wcp.dll' : got STATUS_SUCCESS

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Encountered the option "featurename" with value "SMBdirect" - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::Private_GetPackagesFromCommandLine

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Encountered an unknown option "featurename" with value "SMBdirect" - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::Private_GetPackagesFromCommandLine

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Loaded servicing stack for online use. - CDISMPackageManager::CreateCbsSession

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Info CSI 00000001 Shim considered [l:123]'??\C:\windows\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-servicingstack_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.26100.3321_none_a52dfe0d774762b3\wcp.dll' : got STATUS_SUCCESS

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Feature SmbDirect with CBS state 4(CbsInstallStateStaged) being mapped to dism state 4(DISM_INSTALL_STATE_STAGED) - CDISMPackageFeature::LogInstallStateMapping

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Error DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Parent features must be enabled before this feature can be enabled. "SmbDirect" - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::Private_ProcessFeatureChange

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Error DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 One or more features could not be enabled. - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::Private_ProcessFeatureChange(hr:0x80070032)

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Error DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Failed while processing command enable-feature. - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::ExecuteCmdLine(hr:0x80070032)

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=10248 Further logs for online package and feature related operations can be found at %WINDIR%\logs\CBS\cbs.log - CPackageManagerCLIHandler::ExecuteCmdLine

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Info DISM DISM Package Manager: PID=8296 TID=8232 Finalizing CBS core. - CDISMPackageManager::Finalize

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Info DISM DISM Manager: PID=3396 TID=3796 Closing session event handle 0x274 - CDISMManager::CleanupImageSessionEntry

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Info DISM DISM.EXE: Image session has been closed. Reboot required=no.

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Info DISM DISM.EXE:

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Info DISM DISM.EXE: <----- Ending Dism.exe session ----->

2025-03-13 07:13:19, Info DISM DISM.EXE: