I'm trying to share my MBPr over my LAN with my windows 8 desktop. When i go to the file sharing options, under "Windows File Sharing" section, the user account i want to share (my main account) is greyed out, so I can not select it. The other user account is selectable though.
Any reason why I can't select my main account??
MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.1.x)
Read this article : macOS Sierra: Set up a Mac to share files with Windows users
Same problem here, solved removing iCloud password as login password for my mac account and setting a new one (ONLY for the local account). I don't know if this is a privacy-focused security system or a bug.
wow, is that all it took? I spent several hours on support chat who ultimately made me create a new user account and import all my old account data over to that one. It worked, but would have been way easier to just change the password. Oh well. It's fixed now...
OMG, you're brilliant! If I were to have another kid, I'd name it after you. I've been at this for hours. Why isn't it notated anywhere? And here I thought I was making things *easier* by using my iCloud password for both. God bless you.
Thanks! I needed that.
How do I do this - remove my iCloud password and create a local one? I am also trying to share files between 2 computers.
System Preferences/Users & Groups - Change Password for the account.
No, that is not a solution, that is a poor workaround for very expensive hardware.
There must be knowledge on how to fix this provided by Apple, but I guess that you need to spend extra money for support on operating system that looks nice but is unstable on crucial parts like file-sharing and user accounts.
It's a stable as bloody windows 95.
thanks a ton...worked for me
Can't select user for file sharing with windows
