Unable to access local network share - not sure what account and/or password to use

[King Mustard]

I have two PCs in this room, one called ELLIOT-PC and one called ELLIOT-SERVER.

ELLIOT-SERVER has a Local Account profile called Elliot, that I use to share folders.

ELLIOT-PC has a Microsoft Account profile (Hotmail).

When I try to navigate to \\elliot-server in Windows Explorer on ELLIOT-PC, I get the following:



As it seems to autofill my Hotmail email address, I tried to use the password for that email address but it does not work.

I have tried all sorts of usernames and passwords, and nothing works.

I temporarily made the Guest account on ELLIOT-SERVER an Administrator account, and since then, if I click on 'More choices' > 'Use a different account', use Guest as the username and leave the password blank, I get access to the folders and files.

Obviously, that is not ideal. And to make things worse, whilst I am not 100% sure what triggers this, after a few hours, or a restart of either ELLIOT-PC or ELLIOT-SERVER (or a combination of these), it re-asks me to login, even if I click 'Remember my credentials'.

Can anyone help? I want to always be able to access the network share without having to keep logging in.

 

[Bighorn]

I went a different way, use a NAS drive attached to my Router and store files on it. Any computer whether Wired or Wireless that can access the Router can Map a folder on that NAS drive and access the files. Advantage to me is no one computer has to remain on, just the NAS drive. Once a Wired or Wireless connection is made it remains accessible by whichever computer accessed it, login is retained on the computer/s. The NAS device has 2 x 4TB drives in it, RAID 0 gives 8TB storage but I went with RAID 1 for 4TB storage. With RAID 0 data is striped across both drives, lose one and all is lost. RAID 1 mirror-copies one to the other.

 

[Xploit Machine]

It should be your Windows logon creedentials ..