Re: Admin shares

From: Cyril Voisin [MS] (cyrilv_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/13/03 

Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:17:10 +0200

Hi.
Members of Administrators group have access to these (well-named) admin
shares.
You may be prompted for a password if the account you used to open a session
on your local machine is not a member of the local admin group of the remote
machine. Password is also not prompted if you have the same exact
combination of account details (name and password) existing on both machines
(and you use that account to open your session).

hth
Regards,
--cyrilv
"Invisible" <orphi69@hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:0b4401c331a2$29bd9860$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> OK, so this is a Windows NT question, but I can't find a
> Windows NT newsgroup anywhere, so...
>
> By default, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation creates hidden
> shares on the root of each drive (C$, D$, etc). I saw
> someone further down the group ask how to turn them off...
> I just want to know how you set the access permissions on
> them. Who is supposed to be able to access them? Who's
> password are you supposed to need?
>
> I have a whole load of NT boxes. On a few of them, you get
> asked for a password if you try to connect to the admin
> shares. But on most of them, you don't seem to need a
> password. I find this rather upsetting. Other than turning
> them off, what are my options?
>
> Thanks.
>

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