Re: Drives seem to be sharing themselves

From: Miha Pihler (mihap-news_at_atlantis.si)
Date: 06/15/04


Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 19:54:43 +0200

Hi,

this are so called "administrative shares" and are created at windows
installation. Only administrators can connect to this shares. Make sure you
have strong -- hard to guess password assigned to your administrator
accounts...

Mike

"JiveYeti" <JiveYeti@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C4C9B575-DD20-447C-99C6-1AD77560B92F@microsoft.com...
>I have 2 hard drives in a windowx xp box and they are shared by defaut
>(even when I turn off sharing it turns back on after reboot) they are
>shared with names like C$. This seems creepy to me and I'm concerned I have
>a worm or something which is forcing sharing to be turned on. Any ideas?



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