Good evening computerhope,
At my old job, I had network admin rights. I could access any PC on the domain via \\computername\c$. I would like to set this up at home as well so that I can similarly access any of the PCs files directly without needing to RDP in.
I do not want to setup a domain, however. Normally, I would imagine that the C drive would be shared and full permissions would be granted to the local admin account, (please let me know on this one) or, if you want to get fancy, a local account on another windows machine.
Here's the problem :
I have just spent all day upgrading my gaming machine, 2 Intel NUCs used as DVRs, and a Shuttle I use as a HTPC/Storage PC to windows 8.1. Win8.1 forces you to use a non-local microsoft account.
Now I'm stumped. What do I use when authenticating? When I try to access via \\computername\C$ - I get prompted for credentials.
-The normal microsoft account does not work (
[email protected]).
-computername\name@account does not work either (the difference here being specifying the computer I am trying to access as the domain, instead of the default of the computer I am attempting to access from).
I gave full permissions on the C drive to the Authenticated Users group in the sharing and security tab.
I'm not sure if the microsoft account is an auth'ed user or not, but it is the only admin account on the PC (actually, the only account on the PC that I created); or, if I somehow need to specify "microsoft account" as the domain.. which I do not know how to do or if iis even possible to do.
Any insight on this is appreciated!
Thanks you,
Diatech
