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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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Where exactly do you enter that phone number ? Do you start at Credential Manager or EACH PC and edit every PC listed? I have tried everyhings and this is a total waste of time and really a poor system that Microsoft should be ashamed of putting out to the users to try to make things work. They need a real video on a website to show step by step all the things that must be done to make this happen. Worse yet the issue can come and go between different PC's on my networks. Really frustrating.
is there a reason you cant see the passwords under the windows credentials tab. only the dots. you cant hit show
You have to open Credential Manager on each user account (on the remote computer). There you can see can edit user name and password. I just entered "guest" for user name and left the password field blank, instead of entering a phone number as others have metioned (found that on Reddit).
I was able to sign in with my Microsoft username/password.
The information there is useless.
