Re: Drives seem to be sharing themselves

From: JiveYeti (JiveYeti_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/15/04


Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:58:01 -0700


Thanks for your reply, Mike. I don't ever recall seeing this in my sharing preferences. I booted up in safe mode and logged on as Administrator but still could't turn off sharing...any idea if this situation is reversible or if it's even a problem?

"Miha Pihler" wrote:

> 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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