Windows 10: Enter Network Credentials Username and Password for a computer that already has "no password required sharing is enabled"

With respect to what I wrote in my previous reply, here's a more complete solution:

Here's what worked for me.  It involved 2 changes and the first did not work without the second.  Here's the sequence:  Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and Sharing Center > Advanced Sharing Setting > Change sharing options for different network profiles.  First:  select all networks.  Under password selected sharing, select the second option "Turn off password protected sharing."  To make that stick, you will have to sign out and sign back in.  Second: Follow the same sequence as above and when you get to "Change Sharing Options . . . " select "Private (current profile)."  Under HomeGroup Connections  select the first option "Allow windows to manage homegroup connections (recommended)."  You will then be instructed to sign out.   When you sign back in you should be able to work on network devices without a request for credentials. 

I have a similar problem.  Old PC is Dell Lap with Windows 7.  New PC MS Surface with Windows 10.  W7 is not allowed access to W10.

Popup asks for user and password.  No combination of user and pass on W10 work.  Eureka! It wants the user and pass from W7.  Not intuitive! 

Problem is still present.  Now get "Network Error" "do not have permission...".

I setup a new account on W7 with the same user and pass as W10.  Tried it all again.  Still get same "Network Error"...

I tried accessing through "User Groups" and "File Explorer". I get the same results.

Notes:

W10 resets User Group sharing to "Not Shared" every time it is rebooted.

Advance sharing, "All Networks" is set to "Turn off password protected sharing".

"W10 resets User Group sharing to "Not Shared" every time it is rebooted." is not entirely correct.  W10 resets "Not Shared" every time you access "Advance sharing" whether or not you change anything.

Knowing this solves the problem.

First, set Advance sharing.

Second, set User Group Sharing.

Third, don't touch Advance sharing again!

Regards,

Paul Bristol

Of course there is still the problem of accessing files on another network computer with password protection active. 

My previous posts apply when "Turn off password protected sharing" is set in Advance sharing.  With W10 set to use password protection, no user, password combination on W7 works.  Not W10 passwords nor W7 passwords.

On the other hand, W10 does get access to the W7.  I use the W10 user pass and get access to everything shared on W7.  Not intuitive, and the sharing computer is not protected by entering the inquiring computer's password.  It may be protected by the User Group password, but that is visible on multiple computers and may have been printed out or copied down many times.

I do not understand what user pass is required or where it is verified or how to set it when password protected sharing is set to "on".

All,

My problem was a little different in that I have a laptop (64bit) and desktop (32bit) on the same network, each running Windows 10 (Creators edition) and each with exactly the same username/passwords.

From the desktop I was able to connect to the D:drive on laptop using the following in Windows Explorer \\mylaptop\D$  However, I was not able to do the reverse i.e From the Laptop to the Desktop.

After following all of the suggestions above, I was still getting the "Enter Network Credentials" dialog box, which would never allow me to gain access to the Desktop 'administrative shares'.  I checked all kinds of Security settings and Permissions, but to no avail.

A search in Google located the following blog which although for Win 7 or Vista, happened to be the solution to my problem.  In my case the Registry key on the Desktop was missing.  Creating it as per the following link fixed the issue.

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/enable-mapping-to-hostnamec-share-on-windows-vista/

Many thanks to Lowell Heddings at "How-To-Geek"