Win 10 recently did update. Since then I have been asked for a password to access a shared folder on our other computer. I don't know what password it wants. I have been using this shared folder for months, maybe years without a password. Where can I find it, change it, disable it?
Welcome to the forum. It needs user name and password of an user on the PC your connecting to ideally and administration user
The upgrade changes some settings in Network & Sharing Centre back to their default values.
Open Network and Sharing Centre, Advanced sharing settings, and change the "all networks" section, turn on sharing, and turn off password-protected sharing.
Windows often changes these setting back to default as its safer and more secure with no password any virus can spread
I suppose... But it's undoing work that people have spent time setting up. And they offer the feature, if they do why muck it up later? I only share one folder, and that folder only has apks, .zip file repositories (for kodi), etc. I use it once a year or so; I got tired of walking thumb or sd drives back and forth between the two devices.
Maybe I'll look at sharing an Nvidia Shield/Kodi folder to PC instead of the other way around. Maybe that would be smoother...
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