Using the administrative C$ share

[Holger]

I'm developing an application which remotely installs a service. This is
done by copying the service files' to the c$ share on the target
machine, connecting to scm, installing and starting the service, which
worked fine for all >= windows nt systems.
Now, I experienced serious problems doing this in Windows Vista (Vista
Ultimate, Build# 6000):
as it seems, the C$ share and the SCM can only be accessed remotely by
the user 'Administrator' (not by any other user which is member of the
'Administrators' group), which is disabled by default.
I also generally wonder how remote network administration may work in
this scenario.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Holger

 

[Kerry Brown]

In an active directory domain the shares are available by default. In a work
group you can create a registry entry to make them available.

http://www.jimmah.com/vista/net/filtertoken.aspx

I'm not sure about remotely connecting to the Service Control Manager.

 

[Holger]

Many thanks for your help.
Seems to work fine using this registry entry (both c$ share and scm
connect).
I assume that this problem only exists when using local computer
administrators when you say that it works with (ads) domain administrators.

 

[Kerry Brown]

You're welcome