The WDTV Live is not a PC so it cannot log in to your PC using a microsoft logon and password.
Create a new user account and give it a normal user name and password, not a microsoft one. (There is an option for that in the “Add an Account” function. Then you can share from that account.
Also, you can turn off password protected sharing in the control panel, so you don’t need passwords at all to share.
Thank you for sharing your issue and your solution. I am having the exact same problem but still have not resolved it.
When I try to access the Windows Share from the WD TV Live, I input my username (the email address used in the Windows Live ID account) with a ‘_000’ attached to the end of it, and in the password slot I justinput my Windows Live ID account password. The WD TV Live still tells me ‘Invalid username or password. Please try again’.
Perhaps I have done something wrong. Can you please confirm that this is what you did to solve the problem?
I still cannot access the shares. I dont want to remove the password because theres many people in this network and I dont want to compromise any data on my shared folders.
I tried using the email username (before the ‘@’) with the _000 with the full password and it still says its wrong. Please forgive my ignorance and ineptitude but could you tell me in more detail where it is that you see this username in Windows 8.1?
When I go to control panel and then user accounts, I never see _000. And when I go to C:\Users, I also dont see a username with _000.
Thank you very much for your patience and help! I really want to have my media available again.
But now I only see the ‘Users’ folder with the ‘Default’ and ‘username’ folders. So I can only access media that is on my desktop or in the username’s libraries. I cannot see the folders in the external drives that I have shared.