accessing c$ admin share with SP2

[gerryR]

Hi all

I'm currently running an audit to determine the current size of our users
mail box size (stored locally) for our upcoming migration to exchange. So
far I have been accessing the users local drive via \\computername\c$ and
getting properties of the mail folder. We have a mix of NT, 2000 and XP

I have now run into a problem with what I think are the XP machines with SP2
installed, they will not let me access the admin share, it just times out.

Has anyone come accross this before ? Does anyone have a solution ? Our
users are connected via wan and are in multiple locations so going around to
each machine is not an option.

Thanks for any replies
regards
gerryR

 

[Steve N.]

Hi all

I'm currently running an audit to determine the current size of our users
mail box size (stored locally) for our upcoming migration to exchange. So
far I have been accessing the users local drive via \\computername\c$ and
getting properties of the mail folder. We have a mix of NT, 2000 and XP

I have now run into a problem with what I think are the XP machines with SP2
installed, they will not let me access the admin share, it just times out.

Has anyone come accross this before ? Does anyone have a solution ? Our
users are connected via wan and are in multiple locations so going around to
each machine is not an option.

Thanks for any replies
regards
gerryR

Have the users turn off Windows Firewall for this operation and see if
that solves the problem.

Steve