Windows 7 64bit Administrative Share
I'm having real trouble enabling the administrative share on a windows machine. My ultimate goal is to use PsExec to run a remote command line on the remote computer, but I've been reading that it relies on the administrative share to function. I have enabled file sharing on the machine Turn on network discover Turn on file and printer sharing Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can read and write files in the Public folders Media streaming is off Enable file sharing for devices that use 40 or 56 bit encryption Turn on Password protected sharing Use user accounts and passwords to connect to other computers I also did the LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy registry entry. At one point I entered the homegroup setup wizard, but I never connected it to a homegroup and it is currently disabled. Every time I try and access the admin share through explorer (\\REMOTE-PC\ADMIN$) I enter the user name \\REMOTE-PC\USER and the password, but it says access denied The curious part is that I can access several other computers' admin shares from the remote computer, but I cannot connect to the remote computer's admin share (tried from several computers, 7 64bit and XP). The remote computer is running Windows 7 64 Professional. My other computers are running 7 Home Premium and XP. Please... any help is very very appreciated. Been banging my head against the wall now for days. Nathan
June 16th, 2011 7:34pm

hi, you can't access network drives using c$, d$ in or from windows 7, it is disabled for security reasons. you have to share each drive with permissions to access it in a network. Regards
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June 16th, 2011 9:53pm

I can access computer 1 (running windows 7 64bit home premium) through the remote computer (running windows 7 64bit professional) using \\Comp1\C$. So I don't believe what you say is true. I see multiple websites with instructions how to enable the administrative shares on windows 7 and people are having success, including me, but this one computer does not seem to allow access. I'm looking for a setting outside the file and network settings and the registry item that would inhibit the administrative share. Thanks, Nathan
June 17th, 2011 12:20pm

Are you able to access regular shares on this particular failing box? Right click the C$ share and choose stop sharing. Then restart the PC or just restart the lanmanserver service using the NET START/STOP command. Sumesh P - Microsoft Online Community Support
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June 20th, 2011 1:55pm

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