Connecting to a Windows 8 Share
Ok, I feel kind of dumb asking this question, but after hours of trial and error, I am very frustrated. Maybe someone can help.
I have a Windows 8 PC, where my primary account is connected to my Live ID. When I login to this account normally, it is my Live email address "name@live.com" and my Live password. No problem.
So now I go to a second computer running Windows 7. Both PC's are connected to the same physical router by LAN cable right next to each other. I want to map a network drive to C: on my win8 PC. Connections used to work when both PCs used win7. I've shared c: and given all users full permissions (dangerous, I know, but I want to get this to work) on the win8 pc. I enter the address as "\\[win8pcname]\c$" on the "map network drive" dialog of the win7 pc.
This is where I have trouble. When it prompts me for the login info, nothing I enter as a login will succeed. I've tried:
[win8pcname]\[login]
[win8pcname]\[liveid]
[win8pcname]\[liveid]@live
[liveid]@live.com
I've typed the password in Notepad to verify I'm typing it correctly and pasted it in. I've tried it with no password and with old passwords that I used before connecting to Live. Nothing.
Any ideas how to properly format my credentials so that the network share is created??
I have a Windows 8 PC, where my primary account is connected to my Live ID. When I login to this account normally, it is my Live email address "name@live.com" and my Live password. No problem.
So now I go to a second computer running Windows 7. Both PC's are connected to the same physical router by LAN cable right next to each other. I want to map a network drive to C: on my win8 PC. Connections used to work when both PCs used win7. I've shared c: and given all users full permissions (dangerous, I know, but I want to get this to work) on the win8 pc. I enter the address as "\\[win8pcname]\c$" on the "map network drive" dialog of the win7 pc.
This is where I have trouble. When it prompts me for the login info, nothing I enter as a login will succeed. I've tried:
[win8pcname]\[login]
[win8pcname]\[liveid]
[win8pcname]\[liveid]@live
[liveid]@live.com
I've typed the password in Notepad to verify I'm typing it correctly and pasted it in. I've tried it with no password and with old passwords that I used before connecting to Live. Nothing.
Any ideas how to properly format my credentials so that the network share is created??
Before I offer my one suggestion, try making a share to some folder on the C drive rather than the root ($). Make it called test on the c drive and share it with default permissions. So you will then have a share that looks like this: \\win8pcname\test
If you can navigate to that from the Win7 pc and it logs in with one of the 4 tried username/password combos above let me know. If that also doesn't work, please let me know, thanks.
If you can navigate to that from the Win7 pc and it logs in with one of the 4 tried username/password combos above let me know. If that also doesn't work, please let me know, thanks.
ASKER
Thank you for the comments. I tried the suggestions, but no change in result. I shared a folder below the root and attempted to connect. I used the 4 combinations above, including the bob@gmail.com syntax, and it gives me an error: "The operation failed because the specified user is invalid."
Do you have any other ideas?
Do you have any other ideas?
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This was the solution.
but when i had my windows 8 pc linked to the live id
i just used my liveid
eg:
bob@gmail.com
password