Before the upgrade to 10 I was on 7 and logged in with a local account with all computers having the same usernames and passwords and sharing worked flawlessly.
After the upgrade I am now logging in with a Microsoft account and sharing does not work.
Windows 7 Pro --> Windows 10 Pro Upgrade.
Last edited by MikeWilliams; 03 Aug 2015 at 04:04.
Hi there
To share a LOCAL machine FROM the one with the Ms account - when you see the windows popup enter the following
Username : LOCALMACHINENAME\USERNAME Username is your username on the Local machine
Password : Your password
To share the Ms ACCOUNT machine FROM the local machine
USERNAME this is usually the username of the Ms account minus the email bit (i.e remove from the @ onwards)
Password your Ms account password
If that username doesn't work logon to the users directory and see what user names have folders -- use one of those usernames with your Ms account password.
It's bonkers -- but hey - when did Windows Networking ever really work properly -- ever since they attempted serious networking way back in Windows 3. !!!!!!!
Cheers
jimbo
Thanks Jim,
Should have made it a bit clearer.
I am trying to get to the administrative share i.e. \\server\c$ which normally works fine if the username and password are the same on BOTH the server and the laptop when it used to have Windows 7 on it and I logged on with the account.
Server is running Windows Server 2008 R2 (lets say it's machine name is SERVER) and I am logging on with local account (i.e. User)
Laptop was upgraded fro Windows 7 Pro with local account (i.e. User) and is now running Windows 10 Pro logged in with a Microsoft account (i.e. user@outlook.com)
Password is the same for local account on both server and laptop prior to upgrade, same password for user@outlook.com
When I try to browse to \\server\c$ I get the login prompt. and none of the combinations below work
server\user password
.\user password
PS: All machine names, account names are fictitious for the purpose of this discussion
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