When you try to connect to a remote Windows file share, you might find that you are not asked for username and password (but you should have been), but can connect to the share server. But when opening any share, you won’t be granted accesss since your credentials are wrong. A similar issue might be that you won’t be given access to a remote windows server at all in first place, and the file share server doesn’t ask for credentials, too.
The solution for this issue is simple:
- In Control Panel, select User Accounts.
- On the left hand side, select “Manage own network passwords”.
- Add a new entry with the server you wish to connect to (without leading \\’s) as server name and SERVER\USERNAME as username, where SERVER is the remote server and USER is the username you wish to authenticate as on the file share.
- Now, try to connect to the share again. You should be either given access immediately, or you should at least be asked for your credentials which you can enter then.