Cannot remote connect to C$ as Admin

[Guest]

I want to establish a remote connection to the Administrative Share on a
workstation. However, when I am asked to authenticate, it does not give me
the opportunity to specifiy the user. It shows the "Guest" user account, and
is greyed out, so that I cannot change to anotehr user. I don't have this
problem with Win2K systems.

I have simple file sharing turned off, and the GUest Account, and Guest
share are disabled.

How can I get the ability to specify user (i.e Administrator, or other loca
user with Admin rights), instead of Guest?

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Verify that the guest account is disabled/inactive on the computer that you
want to access and a quick way would be with the command net user guest.
Also make sure that there is an administrator account available on the XP
Pro computer. For instance if the built in administrator account is disabled
you would need to have another user that is a member of the local
administrators group to authenticate to and make sure that at least one
available administrator account has a password as by default you can not use
a user account without a password for network access. There is also a
security option you could check that should be configured when you disable
simple file sharing but open Local Security Policy on the computer with the
share and go to local policies/security options and the security option for
network access: sharing and security model for local accounts and make sure
it is set to classic - local users authenticate as themselves. --- Steve

 

[Guest]

Steve,

Thanks for the info. I checked all, and made sure everything was set
correctly, but still no luck. It is still defaulting to a "greyed out" Guest
authentication. One thing though... In your reply yuo stated that I could
not log in remotely as Adin if the pw is blank. I think that the machine is
currently logged in as "Administrator" with a blank password. I do have
another user (in the admin group) with pw enabledthought, and this is what I
was going to use for remote connection. Do you think having the machin
logged in as Admin with blank PW may be causing this?

Roger

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I don't know for sure but that sounds like it could be a problem. What you
could try is to use the net use command to connect to that share specifying
the user account you want too use that has a password as in net use *
\\computername\C$ /u:username which should prompt you for a password and
then if successful map a drive on your computer with the next available
drive letter that would be the C$ share on the remote computer. Of course
that user account would need to exist on the remote computer and be in the
local administrators group. There is also a security option that you could
change on your XP Pro computer to allow blank passwords for network
connection but that certainly could be a security issue depending on your
network configuration and needs. That is also in Local Security Policy local
policies/security options - accounts:limit local account use of blank
passwords to console logon only. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/net_use.mspx?mfr=true