Home has very limited sharing capabilities built into the
user interface. I am not a user of Home edition, but wonder
whether you can map the admin shares such as C$, which
all other versions of Windows (NT family) have automatically
shared for access only by admin accounts.
The problem that you will encounter is that Home edition is
permanently in Simple Sharing mode, also call ForceGuest
after the reg key used. In this mode, even if one authenticates
over the wire as some account, when the access is made to the
filesystem underlying the share the NTFS permissions checks
are done as if one had connected as the Guest account. Hence,
even when access is made as an admin to the share, the access
rights to the files and folders will be as Guest.
Try using Remote Desktop to the other machines, logging in
as admin, and the reach back to shares on your machine to pull
over the files/apps/patches you need and install them within
the remote login session.
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Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
Willyu said:
I have three wirless networked computers (All are windows XP Home); main,
and two for my children. I want to have admin rights on the other computers
so that I can update windows, install games, fonts - whatever. BUT I cannot
access the program files and Windows folders on their computers? I looked
at the properties of these folders but the "sharing" option is greyed out so
I cannot share these folders or can I?
