Admin share is not accessible in a domain environment

[Guest]

I have 50 computers in a Windows 2000 Server domain. There are about 40
desktop runing windows XP professinal. Most of them work fine. But I can't
use the admin share for 5 of the computers. I don't remember installed these
computer different from the others. When I try to connect to the c$ I get
the message says "The network path \\computername\c$ could not be found." I
checked the computer and the share is there.

 

[Chuck]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:14:04 -0800, Need Help <Need

I have 50 computers in a Windows 2000 Server domain. There are about 40
desktop runing windows XP professinal. Most of them work fine. But I can't
use the admin share for 5 of the computers. I don't remember installed these
computer different from the others. When I try to connect to the c$ I get
the message says "The network path \\computername\c$ could not be found." I
checked the computer and the share is there.

The C$ share requires administrative access. Are you using an account with
administrative access on the server with the C$ share, from the 5 problem
computers?

Do you perhaps have a misconfigured firewall causing problems?

 

[Chuck]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:14:04 -0800, Need Help <Need

I have 50 computers in a Windows 2000 Server domain. There are about 40
desktop runing windows XP professinal. Most of them work fine. But I can't
use the admin share for 5 of the computers. I don't remember installed these
computer different from the others. When I try to connect to the c$ I get
the message says "The network path \\computername\c$ could not be found." I
checked the computer and the share is there.

The C$ share requires administrative access. Are you using an account with
administrative access on the server with the C$ share, from the 5 problem
computers?

On the problem computers, check to see if Simple File Sharing (Control Panel -
Folder Options - View - Advanced settings) is enabled or disabled. With XP Pro,
you need to have SFS properly set on each computer.

The problem computers with SFS disabled, check the Local Security Policies
(Control Panel - Administrative Tools). Under Local Policies - Security
Options, look at "Network access: Sharing and security model", and ensure it's
set to "Classic - local users authenticate as themselves".

Remember anybody authenticating as Guest (SFS enabled, or Network access:... set
to Guest only) cannot access an administrative share.

Do you perhaps have a misconfigured firewall causing problems?