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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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OK, I have made some progress. I did not realise that password protection had been switched on by the udate to the laptop. I have switched that off now and the PC can now see the laptop and connect to Users. But in Users I can only see the user "Default", not my user name.
How do I get to see my user name?
Been there - done that. Does not work! It has something to do with microsoft's passwordless accounts. I finally - after trying everything I've read everywhere used my PHONE number for user name and skipped the password and it actually connected!
Go figure!
Thanks for your tip CAH17. I don't yet understand it, but entering my phone number (without country code) and Microsoft Account password allowed to connect to my other laptop to see the shared folders. Weird to me that it doesn't work with my Microsoft Account email address. I didn't try skipping the password like you did. Remote Desktop login still isn't working, but I don't need that right now.
Just to be clear about my situation - I'm trying to connect from my Windows 11 laptop to my Windows 10 laptop at home.
Thanks for your help. Using my Microsoft user ID and password worked for me.
Finally something that worked for me. thank you
I have had this problem and fixed it by adding a windows credentials for the new computer on the server. After I added the new computer credentials, the server recognized the new computer and I was able to access the files on the server.
Honestly, I tried all of that, and much more. So I decided to buy a NAS box and put some very large drives in them. Now all my machines can see/share those drives without issue, and they can all use the same drive letter. I'm so much happier now that I essentially took Windows sharing out of the equation. Maybe someday they'll fix it, but I'm already way past that.
That's interesting Jeff, Sounds like a good solution.
What NAS did you buy?
