Administrative Shares

[Paul]

I am trying to connect to the administrative shares (specifically c$) on
Windows XP Pro computers. It will not allow me to connect and just keeps
asking for a username and password. I type in the admin info but it will
not map to C$. This works no problem on Windows 2000 computers without
changing any settings so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Anybody know
how to connect to the admin shares on WinXP?

Thanks,

Paul

 

[Chuck]

I am trying to connect to the administrative shares (specifically c$) on
Windows XP Pro computers. It will not allow me to connect and just keeps
asking for a username and password. I type in the admin info but it will
not map to C$. This works no problem on Windows 2000 computers without
changing any settings so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Anybody know
how to connect to the admin shares on WinXP?

Thanks,

Paul

Paul,

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 the
SFS settings the same on each computer.

If SFS is disabled, check the Local Security Policy (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".

If you set the Local Security Policy to "Guest only", make sure that the Guest
account is enabled, and has an identical, non-blank, password on all computers.
If "Classic", setup and use a common account with identical, non-blank, password
on all computers.

And please learn to munge your email address properly, to keep the spam email
traffic away from the AOL servers. Yours wasn't quite it.
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Paul]

Thanks Chuck!! That worked fine. I changed the Local Security Policy
setting to Classic. And I changed my munge email address also.

Thanks again.

Paul

 

[Chuck]

Thanks Chuck!! That worked fine. I changed the Local Security Policy
setting to Classic. And I changed my munge email address also.

Thanks again.

Paul

Kewl, Paul. Glad to help. Thanks for the update.