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Finally cracked it - Sharing with Ms and Local accounts
Hi there
I'm surprised nobody has posted this solution before -- If you have computers with Local and Ms accounts you will often see the login panel prompting for a user name when trying to access the Shares on the computer with the MS account FROM the one with the local account.
the STUPID thing is that it's not documented at all.
The trick is to use the part of the email address BEFORE the @email (on the Ms account) as the User id and also enter your MS account password for the machine -- works fine.
You can also check - just look in the folder USERS (on the machine with the Ms account) and ensure the name exists.
Finally --what a DOG.
(Note I'm still not sure what to do when trying to connect to a LOCAL machine FROM the Ms Account -- the above solution works for connecting FROM a LOCAL machine TO an Ms account).
Cheers
jimbo