Vista to Vista admin access in a workgroup

[Andrew Haswell]

Very simple, 2 new machines, fresh builds, one running home premium, one
running ultimate. Both have identical initial users created, same name, same
password. I cannot whatever i try, seem to connect from one to the other
through a $ share. Name resolution is working but after thinking a while it
always comes back asking for credentials. Both machines get ip from DHCP,
both have their network set to private, file sharing is on. Turning windows
firewall off makes no difference, it is not a name resolution issue or a
firewall issue it is authentication..

can anyone tell me what i need to do to perform this simplist of functions
and make the connection to \\name\c$ because its really annoying me now. I
know if i was in a domain it would work seemlessly, but invariably its a
pain in the rear in a workgroup.

thanks for any help

Andrew Haswell
MCSE

 

[Robert L [MVP - Networking]]

Vista is different from previous OS to share C$. This link may help,

Vista issuesBy default, Vista administrative shares e.g. C$, D$) are not shared by default for security reasons. You should create your own shares to share your drives ...
http;//www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistanetissues.htm


Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
Very simple, 2 new machines, fresh builds, one running home premium, one
running ultimate. Both have identical initial users created, same name, same
password. I cannot whatever i try, seem to connect from one to the other
through a $ share. Name resolution is working but after thinking a while it
always comes back asking for credentials. Both machines get ip from DHCP,
both have their network set to private, file sharing is on. Turning windows
firewall off makes no difference, it is not a name resolution issue or a
firewall issue it is authentication..

can anyone tell me what i need to do to perform this simplist of functions
and make the connection to \\name\c$ because its really annoying me now. I
know if i was in a domain it would work seemlessly, but invariably its a
pain in the rear in a workgroup.

thanks for any help

Andrew Haswell
MCSE

 

[Dave R.]

Very simple, 2 new machines, fresh builds, one running home premium,
one running ultimate. Both have identical initial users created, same
name, same password. I cannot whatever i try, seem to connect from one
to the other through a $ share. Name resolution is working but after
thinking a while it always comes back asking for credentials. Both
machines get ip from DHCP, both have their network set to private,
file sharing is on. Turning windows firewall off makes no difference,
it is not a name resolution issue or a firewall issue it is
authentication..

can anyone tell me what i need to do to perform this simplist of
functions and make the connection to \\name\c$ because its really
annoying me now. I know if i was in a domain it would work seemlessly,
but invariably its a pain in the rear in a workgroup.

thanks for any help

Although it is the preferred approach, if Robert L's suggestion of
creating new shares is impractical there is a way to allow local
administrators to use their administrator powers over the network:

In the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system\
Add DWORD Value LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy and set it to 1

Regards,

Dave

 

[Andrew Haswell]

Thankyou both for your responses,

i will be using the registry edit, i think its ridiculous that i cant access
the admin shares by default, even if i map a drive manually and use
machine\username as credentials.

But at least now i can get on

Andy