Drives seem to be sharing themselves

[Guest]

I have 2 hard drives in a windowx xp box and they are shared by defaut (even when I turn off sharing it turns back on after reboot) they are shared with names like C$. This seems creepy to me and I'm concerned I have a worm or something which is forcing sharing to be turned on. Any ideas?

 

[Miha Pihler]

Hi,

this are so called "administrative shares" and are created at windows
installation. Only administrators can connect to this shares. Make sure you
have strong -- hard to guess password assigned to your administrator
accounts...

Mike

 

[Miha Pihler]

Hi,

here is a Microsoft article on a subject how to remove administrative
shares.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318751&Product=win2000

If you follow this default shares won't come back after reboot. Latest
article that I could find applies to WindowsNT and Windows 2000. Yes
WindowsNT and any later Microsoft operating system has these shares created
and existing by default.

In the environments that I usually work I don't remove these shares, but I
do make sure that administrators have strong -- hard to guess password.
These shares are often used by some applications, backups and other
applications that e.g. perform remote installations...

I hope this helps,

Mike

 

[cquirke (MVP Win9x)]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:54:43 +0200, "Miha Pihler"

this are so called "administrative shares" and are created at windows
installation. Only administrators can connect to this shares. Make sure you
have strong -- hard to guess password assigned to your administrator
accounts...

....or better still, rip this trash out by the roots!

Never dangle off a password on something that you have no intention of
anyone ever using. Rather kill it stone dead, if possible.

MS documents these dumb-ass duhfault "admin" shares and how to disable
them, and I would do that. You can't rid of the RPC share, tho.

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