This post briefly touches on how to access a Windows 8.1 machine’s file shares using a Microsoft Account. When I’m working from home, I like to listen to music which is stored on my private computer. Windows 8 seems to turn off the \\server\c$ admin shares, and I didn’t really understand how the whole Microsoft Account thing fits with SMB shares.
Turn on file sharing (admin shares) on Windows 8
To turn the admin share c$, d$ etc. back on, you need to set/create the LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy registry setting:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy"=dword:00000001
Provision the Microsoft Account user name:
Simply speaking, the SMB user name for the Microsoft account christian@outlook.de becomes MicrosoftAccount\christian@outlook.de by prefixing it. For instance, you can now run
NET USE X: \\192.168.0.5\c$ /USER:MicrosoftAccount\christian@outlook.de