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Originally Posted by Blossom
However you have to figure your profile username and use your password to it. There's a cmd command: "whoami" to find out your username of your Windows 10 profile. Without quotes of course.
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Originally Posted by Blossom
Most people don't install Windows it comes preloaded. You set up a Microsoft account which can trunicate your email address so whoami is a good way to find out what it is.
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Wow!
The above hints worked!
I used the command 'whoami' on my laptop and found that windows has actually truncated my username to a five letter word like 'xxxxx' while I had set up my Windows 10 with my microsoft email ID as username. (And normally, I use the email IDs successfully to access between three different laptops in the home network.)
So I used the truncated username with the password for mail as a login from ES File Explorer Pro on my phone... and the miracle happened! I was able to access the file system, both shared partitions of HDD on my laptop!
I followed the same 'whoami' procedure from other laptops and found that the usernames have been truncated there too. Using them, I could access all the laptops from my Android now!
Unfortunately, Solid File Manager (trial ver.) failed to show the network places, but ES File Explorer Pro (paid ver.) is working fine.
Tons of thanks, Blossom, for pointing me in the right direction, and to all the friends who expressed their valuable views.
PS: Why not vice-versa? Now I have to research the remaining part of the puzzle: If I can
see and
access the file systems of all my laptops from all the phones connected on the network, why I
can not see or
access the file systems of a phone
from my laptops? ie., my laptops do not discover the android phones in the network.