What should I do if the Win10 system prompts for network credentials when sharing files on the LAN?

  

Nowadays, many enterprise users use the Win10 operating system. Compared with other Windows systems, the Win10 system has many different. When a Win10 system user accesses a LAN shared file, the system pops up a dialog box for entering network credentials. Many users just saw this dialog box and said that they don't know what to enter. The following will introduce you to two solutions for prompting to enter network credentials when Win10 accesses LAN shared files.

Analysis:

Microsoft Windows 10 added a new security mechanism caused no password to access the system form is therefore judged to be unsafe.

Solution One:

You can set up an administrator user with a password on the shared computer or add a password to the previous account.

Solution 2:

If you feel that the password is too cumbersome, you can do the following:

1. Press WIN+R to enter regedit and press Enter. Registry Editor.

2, then navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\LanmanWorkstation\\Parameters

3. Right-click on the new DWORD (32-bit) value in Parameters and rename it to AllowInsecureGuestAuth. Just fine.

Normally, accessing LAN shared files does not require entering network credentials, and at most, just entering a password. Therefore, when the user encounters the need to input network credentials in the process of using the computer, the user can solve the problem according to the above method.

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