Re: Shared Hardrives

From: Steven Umbach (n9rou_at_comcast.com)
Date: 08/22/03


Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 02:41:00 GMT


        The shares you describe are installed by default and called the
administrative shares. Check Computer Management /shares to see if they are
there. Possibly somebody configured the computer to disable them. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314984

"Dean" <dean.smith@wspgroup.com> wrote in message
news:0a3001c367d4$6e8b5aa0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I have to sites that i currently look after the first site
> are running a mix between NT and 2000 on NTSF. We have
> shared all the hardrives of the systems to gain easy
> access to the users desktops to added shortcuts and other
> information and this works fine.The second sites machines
> are all running 2000 and are on NTFS and are having
> problems sharing the hard drives of these machines. I can
> share the hardrive of a machine i.e c$ , using the doller
> to hide the share and only allowing Admins to access the
> share. when i try to access this share it works fine ie.
> using the run command \\computername\c$ on another
> machine, When the machine reboots and you try to access
> the shared drive, a message reading "the netwrok name
> cannot be found". when looking back at the machine that
> had the share , its been deleted. HELP!!!!!
> .



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