Win 10 PC accessing a Win 10 Everyone share prompted for credentials

I have a new Windows 10 Home computer and I've selected a folder and shared it. I've added Everyone to the Share Permissions list with Full Control.




I've selected "Turn off password protected sharing" in the Advance Sharing Center.




When I try to access the share with a Windows 7 laptop in the home it connects right away without a prompt for credentials. When I try to access the share from another Windows 10 device (Surface) there is a prompt for credentials and I am unable to access the shared folder. There are no common account names between machines on my home network.

On the Windows 10 machine which is trying to connect I have run Net use * /DELETE and removed all Windows Credentials using the Credentials Manager then rebooted both machines a few times. Still though the Windows 7 machine can access the share with no credentials and the Windows 10 machine can't access it at all.

My goal is to get the share working for the Windows 10 machine as it works for the Windows 7. Full access, no prompt for credentials. I've workaround steps that will provide access so that type of information isn't needed.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post and any help would be most appreciated.

I've got this working although I'm not entirely certain as to why. The Windows 10 machine that was trying to connect had been logged on to with a Microsoft account which was created on purchase. I created a new local account on that machine and then tried accessing the share with complete success. I'm sure there is some kind of reason for this behavior but I am unable to provided it.

I had the same problem. Solved by accident. When the Windows 10 ask for credentials use the Microsoft account and password you use to log on to the Windows 10 machine. Hope it works for you too.

I had the same problem.
I setup a shared folder in a laptop running Windows 10 Pro, with NO homegroup and the password protected sharing set to OFF.

A second laptop with Windows 10 Home, which was trying to access the shared folder, had logged in with a MS account.
When asked for UserName/Password, as chrismine mentioned, I typed the MS account credentials used to login to this second laptop…. and bingo!!!...everything worked.

I presume that there would be no credentials request, if the second laptop had logged in with a local account, but I haven’t tried it.

Hope that helps someone else, although KUDOS go to chrismine, for his “accidental” solution.

Arsenal said:

I have a new Windows 10 Home computer and I've selected a folder and shared it. I've added Everyone to the Share Permissions list with Full Control.




I've selected "Turn off password protected sharing" in the Advance Sharing Center.




When I try to access the share with a Windows 7 laptop in the home it connects right away without a prompt for credentials. When I try to access the share from another Windows 10 device (Surface) there is a prompt for credentials and I am unable to access the shared folder. There are no common account names between machines on my home network.

On the Windows 10 machine which is trying to connect I have run Net use * /DELETE and removed all Windows Credentials using the Credentials Manager then rebooted both machines a few times. Still though the Windows 7 machine can access the share with no credentials and the Windows 10 machine can't access it at all.

My goal is to get the share working for the Windows 10 machine as it works for the Windows 7. Full access, no prompt for credentials. I've workaround steps that will provide access so that type of information isn't needed.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post and any help would be most appreciated.

Here is the solution for this issue :

1 Right click on the folder that you want to share
2. Go to Properties
3. Go to Security Tab then click Edit on group and usernames
4. Click Add and on the user and group window click advance
5. Click Find Now and look for Everyone on the Search results, Click OK to close the window and OK again
6. Give the control you need for Everyone and click "OK"

That should make that folder accessible without prompting for windows credentials :)

I know this is an old thread, but it's a top 10 hit in google still, so sorry for the necro.

What is not explained in any of the other answers is how to type in your username if you have a microsoft account (not a local or domain account). Using name@outlook.com or whatever did not work in my case, i had to leave off the @Outlook.com part and then it worked. Otherwise I shared my folder as already described above.

Since I have the same account on both computers I am using, I do not know if the credentials asked for are supposed to be on the computer you are connecting from, or the computer that has the share available.