C$ drive sharing

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I'm in need of a little help. I have a home network with 4 PCs on it.
Two of PC's are running Windows 2000 Professional, and the other two
are running Windows Me. I've just added a new PC to the net. It's
running Windows XP Home Edition. I'm going to be using this PC as my
'main' one. What I need to know is how to set up the two W2k PCs to
share their C$ drives with the XP unit. The 2 Me PCs were easy. All I
had to do was right click the C drive icon and click share and Voila!
The XP PC's got full access no problem. However this does not work
same with the W2k ones. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
 
Frank said:
I'm in need of a little help. I have a home network with 4 PCs on it.
Two of PC's are running Windows 2000 Professional, and the other two
are running Windows Me. I've just added a new PC to the net. It's
running Windows XP Home Edition. I'm going to be using this PC as my
'main' one. What I need to know is how to set up the two W2k PCs to
share their C$ drives with the XP unit. The 2 Me PCs were easy. All I
had to do was right click the C drive icon and click share and Voila!
The XP PC's got full access no problem. However this does not work
same with the W2k ones. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
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You probably need to turn off "Simple File Sharing":
"My Computer" / Tools / Folder Options / View / Use simple file sharing
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=307874#3)
 
You probably need to turn off "Simple File Sharing":
"My Computer" / Tools / Folder Options / View / Use simple file sharing
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=307874#3)
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Maybe I didn't state my problem correctly .... The problem is the W2k
PCs will not allow access from any of the other PCs. On the XP unit,
under "My Network Places" the 2 W2k PCs are there. If you click on
one, it will open. I can see the listings of the folders and files on
the C drive, I just can't open them, copy them or anything. I get an
error message saying I don't have the proper authority. I've right
clicked on the C drive icon on the W2k PC and clicked sharing, but
when I click to activate sharing an error window pops up saying
something like: sharing is for administrative purposes only .... ?
..... I am logged on as administrator on all the PCs ....... what
gives?
 
Frank said:
Maybe I didn't state my problem correctly .... The problem is the W2k
PCs will not allow access from any of the other PCs. On the XP unit,
under "My Network Places" the 2 W2k PCs are there. If you click on
one, it will open. I can see the listings of the folders and files on
the C drive, I just can't open them, copy them or anything. I get an
error message saying I don't have the proper authority. I've right
clicked on the C drive icon on the W2k PC and clicked sharing, but
when I click to activate sharing an error window pops up saying
something like: sharing is for administrative purposes only .... ?
.... I am logged on as administrator on all the PCs ....... what
gives?
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Try to walk before you try to run, by creating proper shares
on your Win2000 PC instead of relying on the administrative
shares. I recommend the following steps:

1. Create a share CDrive on the Win2000 PC. If you like
then you can do this from the Command Prompt like so:
net share CDrive=C:\

2. Start a Command Prompt on the WinXP PC.

3. Type this command:
net use x: \\MyWin2000PC\CDrive

What exactly to you see?

(By the way, do you see why multi-posting would be
a bad idea, with respondents in one group never seeing
what respondents in other groups write? Cross-posting
avoids this annoying issue.)
 
share on a peer-to-peer needs a simple rule, that is the account being used
must be present on all systems. meaning if you're using administrator with
password=1234 to get access to other administrative share then that same
account must be present to other system.

administrative shares are shared during the installation stage, but you can
put additional share on that drive if you want to.

sherwin de claro
 
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