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?

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Internet and connectivity

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-09-20T16:23:27+00:00

    I've tried this, to no avail.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-09-14T05:35:11+00:00

    I thought I knew the credentials of my computers, but Network does not allow me access any more, insisting that username or password is incorrect. I now have no network. All my friends insist this is the price I pay for not having bought Macs. Grrr. Can someone help?

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-03T21:07:04+00:00

    Wow, I can't believe that worked, thank you for posting that! I've been fighting with this for almost 2 hours, changed countless settings, tried my CORRECT Microsoft name and password multiple times, nothing worked. Saw this comment and thought "yeah this won't work, what the hell though, I'll try it anyway", and it actually worked :)

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-02-18T16:45:57+00:00

    I've been doing battle with this issue for years... I got back to it when I moved a work computer home and tried to set up network shares. Both computers were showing in Windows Explorer "Network," but then one or both disappeared when I updated Windows10. All the "easy" networking settings are correct, and I enabled services as recommended... One computer was showing up, but the other was not... not even to itself...

    I followed one recommendation to turn on network discovery via the command line, and it actually turned off network discovery... not sure why. I reset network, restarted computer, and the missing Computer under "Network" was now showing... which gets me to the credential issue.

    I still haven't solved this when clicking Image in the Network explorer

    I get .Image

    Same credential error when I enter \T3600 in the address line.

    HOWEVER!!!!

    When I enter the entire path to the folder share \T3600\Photos, it opens without asking for credentials!!!

    UPDATE: Unfortunately, this quit working... I had tried the same approach from T3600 the other computer (it didn't work), and when I came back I could not access the Photos folder on T3600. Strange behavior!

    UPDATE2: Now it's working again... from both computers... don't know why... Strange thing - when using the direct path method, the folder is VERY slow to open.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-02-17T22:20:12+00:00

    john I have tried everything that I have read about from microsotf community. Nothing has worked so far. There has be an answer that works.....

    Thanks for trying to help..

    Tom b

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