Hard drives become "Shared" after reboot . . .

[Stan Shankman]

Greetings all,

On my Windows 2000 Pro box, when I view the properties of a hard-drive by
going to the "Sharing" tab,
I see that "Share this folder" is checked - which puzzles me, because it is
not a folder at all but a hard drive.
Anyway, if I check the box "Do not share this folder" then click on "Apply"
followed by "OK" all is seemingly well.

But then, after a reboot, all of my drives are back to being "Shared" again.

What is up with this?

Could it be because I have the Visual Studio loaded on my machine?

Thanks all,

- Stan Shankman

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

What is the share name?

 

[Guest]

Leave the default admin share alone [c$]
Learn more about security before you mess with default file level permissions.

 

[Stan Shankman]

Pegasus,
I would have to reboot and look at "Sharing" to be sure, but as I recall,
amy drives all get shared after each new reboot with similar names: C:$ ,
D:$, Etc.
As I said, I'm not sure if I got these names correct, but I'm pretty sure
there was a dollar sign in them.
Does this give you a clue?
Thanks,
- Stan Shankman

What is the share name?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

This is by design. They are called the "Administrative Shares".
You can disable them like so:
- Launch Regedit.exe
- Navigate to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
- Set the value of AutoShareServer to 0
- Set the value of AutoShareWks to 0

 

[Frankster]

Heartily Agree!

-Frank