Find network access credentials windows 10 or 11

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Anonymous
2022-02-24T08:55:06+00:00

I've been running my local (wired) network with password protected sharing turned off.

To reduce the risk of infection I've now turned it on on all the pc's.

The result is that I am now unable to access any of the machines on the network (running windows 10 or 11)

I need to input the username and password

However using whoami locally to get the username, and entering the pin as the password I get

"the username or password is incorrect"

trying to access another machine I get "\XXXXX is not accessible. ... etc."

Is there a simple way I can turn on machine A and determine what credentials are required to access it from another PC via the network?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-06-08T17:53:24+00:00

    I HATE MICROSOFT. I should have gone with apple years ago.

    I hate their networking. I just spent 3000 on new computers that I can't use beause of this crappy networking.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-01T01:29:43+00:00

    Just wanted to say THANK YOU for this solution. Worked perfectly fine for me. I usually don't respond to forum posts, but thanks!

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-20T16:22:17+00:00

    I've been fighting this issue for 2 days now.

    I have a mixed network, 2 win 11 PCs and 2 win10 PCs. One of the Win11 PCs is more or less the file server, all the others access shared drives/folders on this machine. 2 of the three other machines have no problem connecting to the shares, but the other win 11 machine (we'll call it NewPC) suddenly can't. The other machines also cannot connect to shares on that NewPC.

    If I had any hair, I'd have pulled it all out by now.

    All machines were logging in using an MS account.

    No credentials seem to work for this NewPC when trying to access the file server. Not an MS account, not a local account.

    However, when I switched to a local account on NewPC, suddenly I can connect to the file server in Network, but only one of the mapped drives actually allows access. ??? How is this possible???

    So I tried disconnecting a mapped drive, and remapping it. Nope, doesn't like any credentials I try. And, under credentials manager on the file server, it doesn't even show the credentials for NewPC connected to that mapped drive.

    This is utterly insane.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-04-09T20:12:03+00:00

    This seems like good info however I've gone into my Microsoft account and don't see a way to enable the password or "force create a local user and password." I've always just used a PIN to sign into my laptop, but it seems to be connected to a Microsoft account on some level. Crazy that this is so complicated.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-04-08T15:30:36+00:00

    First I enabled the password option on my Microsoft account. My account before that was just 2fa through authenticator app and no password. Once I enabled password, windows gave me the option of setting a login password for my actual windows account (when I set windows up initially I logged in to windows with a set PIN, and did not have the ability to set a windows desktop login password).

    So now having a password for windows, that allowed me to use those same credentials to log in to my windows profile from a network device over SMB. So what windows set my default user profile name to (under windows and user) and then the password I created to log into windows worked for me.

    It seems like all my issues stemmed from not having a desktop password (since windows kept logging me in using my Microsoft account that never had a password). Essentially I needed to force create a local user and password to access it from a network.

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