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Microsoft is cracking down on local accounts, but here's how you can still make one

Microsoft has been cracking down on the use of local accounts since the launch of Windows 11, but it's now almost impossible to use a local account unless you log in to your Microsoft account for ...
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Microsoft confirms Patch Tuesday breaks Local Account log-in on Windows 11 and 10Microsoft confirms Patch Tuesday breaks Local Account log-in on Windows 11 and 10Microsoft ...

Microsoft has confirmed an issue on Windows 11 and Windows 10 caused by this month's Patch Tuesday updates. The issue, Microsoft explains, is associated with the local account. When a user installs ...
Ars Technica

Connecting to Windows 11 shares via Samba - or what creds to use if you login (locally) with an MS account?

I haven't yet figured out how to access our new Win11 machine from Linux or Mac, using Samba (v4.13.0 at the moment). I had it working just fine on the preceding Win10 computer which, to the best of ...