{"id":14809,"date":"2019-07-31T14:51:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T14:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=14809"},"modified":"2019-07-31T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T15:06:50","slug":"fix-enter-network-credentials-error-in-windows-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/fix-enter-network-credentials-error-in-windows-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Ways to Fix &#8220;Enter Network Credentials&#8221; Error in Windows 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t access shared resources on the network and the &#8220;Enter Network Credentials&#8221; dialog keeps saying the username or password is incorrect? If you are having problems entering network credentials in Windows 10, here are easy ways to fix it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/enter-network-credentials.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 1: Add Network Credentials to Credential Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/9-ways-to-open-control-panel-in-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open the Control Panel<\/a> and set <strong>View by<\/strong> option to <strong>Large icons<\/strong>, then click on <strong>Credential Manager<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/credential-manager.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Make sure that <strong>Windows Credentials<\/strong> is highlighted, and click on <strong>Add a Windows credential<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14814\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/manage-your-credentials.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fill in the IP address, user name and password of the network computer which you&#8217;re trying to access. Click <strong>OK<\/strong> to save your credentials. <strong>Note:<\/strong> You need to enter both IP address (or PC name) and the user name in the <em>User name<\/em> text box.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14819\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/add-windows-credential.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now you should be able to access the shared resources from the network computer without being prompted to enter network credentials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 2: Turn off Password Protected Sharing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you might be able to fix the &#8220;Enter network credentials error&#8221; by turning off password protected sharing on your network computer. When you&#8217;re in a safe network environment, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/turn-off-password-protected-sharing-in-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disable password protected sharing<\/a> so that anyone on the local network will be able to access your shared resources without entering network credentials.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/turn-off-password-protected-sharing.png\" width=\"586\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Method 3: Network Reset &amp; Change Network to Private<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If none of the above methods work, a network reset might fix the &#8220;Enter network credentials error&#8221;. Check out the following article and you can reset the network settings to default with different ways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/reset-or-reinstall-network-adapter-in-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How to Reset or Reinstall Network Adapter in Windows 10<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or change your network connection type from Public to Private, and see if it works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/change-network-location-to-public-or-private-in-windows-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3 Ways to Change Network Location to Public or Private in Windows 10<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&#8217;t access shared resources on the network and the &#8220;Enter Network Credentials&#8221; dialog keeps saying the username or password is incorrect? If you are having problems entering network credentials in Windows 10, here are easy ways to fix it. Method 1: Add Network Credentials to Credential Manager Open the Control Panel and set View by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[4290,4291],"class_list":["post-14809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-enter-network-credentials-the-username-or-password-is-incorrect","tag-windows-10-network-credentials-incorrect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14809"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14821,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14809\/revisions\/14821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}