Unable to access local network share - not sure what account and/or password to use

I have two PCs in this room, one called ELLIOT-PC and one called ELLIOT-SERVER.

ELLIOT-SERVER has a Local Account profile called Elliot, that I use to share folders.

ELLIOT-PC has a Microsoft Account profile (Hotmail).

When I try to navigate to \\elliot-server in Windows Explorer on ELLIOT-PC, I get the following:



As it seems to autofill my Hotmail email address, I tried to use the password for that email address but it does not work.

I have tried all sorts of usernames and passwords, and nothing works.

I temporarily made the Guest account on ELLIOT-SERVER an Administrator account, and since then, if I click on 'More choices' > 'Use a different account', use Guest as the username and leave the password blank, I get access to the folders and files.

Obviously, that is not ideal. And to make things worse, whilst I am not 100% sure what triggers this, after a few hours, or a restart of either ELLIOT-PC or ELLIOT-SERVER (or a combination of these), it re-asks me to login, even if I click 'Remember my credentials'.

Can anyone help? I want to always be able to access the network share without having to keep logging in.

Hi there, Mr Mustard.

It’s looking for the remote password. As you’re using a local for the remote I assume you’re not using a password?

If you’re not using a password, you could possibly create one.
Not sure which tutorial to give you. I think the top one here. You’ll need to disable passwordless sign in and create a user/password

If you’re setup to use Windows Hello (Pin number) login on the remote computer (ELLIOT-SERVER) this is a problem. You need to create a password for ELLIOT-SERVER. Remote connections don’t play nice with PIN Only lately.
After creating a password for ELLIOT-SERVER, you should log into it at least once locally before you try to connect remotely, then you could go back to using a Pin instead if that is what you want to do.

Had to edit that, bit of a mess. Just woke up. Need… more…coffee

The password is the password that you use to login to Windows on that computer. Not the pin but actual password. If you type NetPlwiz in the Run box (winkey+R) it will show you the user account.

King Mustard said:

ELLIOT-SERVER has a Local Account profile called Elliot, that I use to share folders.
ELLIOT-PC has a Microsoft Account profile (Hotmail).
When I try to navigate to \\elliot-server in Windows Explorer on ELLIOT-PC, I get the following....
....As it seems to autofill my Hotmail email address, I tried to use the password for that email address but it does not work.

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You should click 'More choices' and use ELLIOT-SERVER's local account Elliot and its password. If you tick the 'Remember my credentials' box as well you won't need to do it again next time you try to connect.