Alan Holbrook wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Alan Holbrook wrote:

computer requires authentication and it wants a username and
password. I cannot for the life of me remember ever setting up
anything on the network to require authentication, and no combination
of usernames and passwords gets access. Can anyone help figure out
what's going on here and how I can log on to the Win10 computer from

On the Firestick, enter the logon credentials for the Windows session
that is defined on the host to which the external disks are attached.

That would be great advice, if a bit unnecessary, if I knew what the logon
credentials for the session are. That's the issue. See above.

Are the owner of the computer with the attached external drives? That
person is the admin of that computer and should know what are the login
credentials, or they can reset the password for a Windows account.