windows 7 smb problems
In XP I had no issues, I setup a user account made it an admin account and from any device that supported tcp-ip and SMB I could log in and access the administrative shares C$ D$ etc... It did not matter if was a second network with a crossover cable configured manually, or single network with a dhcp router. With windows 7 I can't do it on either. Example: windows 7 tcp-ip v4 manual config 1.1.1.1 255.255.255.0, tcp-ipv6 disabled, firewall disabled, network discovery on, file and print sharing enabled, enable 40-56 bit encryption on, password protected sharing on, use user accounts on. admin account name: user password: 1234 Random network device that supports tcp-ip and smb. tcp-ip v4 manual config 1.1.1.2 255.255.255.0 account: user password:1234 Tried multiple devices with various config. and none of them could access the admin shares C$.
February 13th, 2010 11:54pm

I personally haven't been able to try this out yet but maybe this post will help? http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itpronetworking/thread/90b8dfe6-5054-4f27-b5a8-8e77b20607ba#93cad294-16f0-4c70-9201-240a5174ddeeClick Start, click Run..., type "cmd" and hit enter, type "work /now"
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February 16th, 2010 1:57am

Hi, Firstly, may I know the following: 1. What do you mean by “any device that supported tcp-ip and SMB”, could you describe them in detail? 2. What is the “random network device”? 3. Do you mean you cannot access the administrative shares on the Windows 7 computer? If so, please let me know the exact error message appeared. Based on my research, I would like to suggest the following at this time: 1. Please check if you can ping the Windows XP computer from the Windows 7 computer. 2. If you could not access the administrative shares on the Windows 7 computer, please also refer to: File and Printer Sharing in Windows Vista Please Note the section “Administrative Shares and Sharing the Root of a Drive”. Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT
February 16th, 2010 12:12pm

Sorry I have not gotten back to you sooner, been very busy, and still am. Will post more details when I get time, just didn't want you to think I was blowing you off.
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February 17th, 2010 5:28pm

Sorry it has been so long. Any way here goes Window XP media center sp2, windows xp pro sp3 , and a modified xbox, none of these devices was able to access the windows 7 ultimate 64 '\\win764\c$' share all devices had the user name and password and all devices could see each other and access c$ except when trying to access 'win764'. I have since found out they can in fact access the win764 without any trouble once UAC is disable on the win764 machine. Witch pretty much makes UAC yet again useless, less prompts, lets in malware and disables access to administrative shares. What more could a tech ask for ?
March 21st, 2010 6:48am

Hi, Thank you for your update. At this time, please try the following suggestions: 1. Disable Password Protected Sharing. 2. Please try the methods in the following Knowledge Base article: Error message when you try to access an administrative share on a Windows Vista-based computer from another Windows Vista-based computer that is a member of a workgroup: "Logon unsuccessful: Windows is unable to log you on" 3. Manually share the drive referring to “Administrative Shares and Sharing the Root of a Drive” of the following document: File and Printer Sharing in Windows Vista Hope this helps. Thanks. Nicholas Li - MSFT
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March 22nd, 2010 6:48am

Read both of them I found the http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947232 to be utterly stupid "This behavior is by design. " Why would anyone want to block access to a share that is already shared and in fact will be re-shared if you delete the share, and then create another share of the same location? Yes lets screwup up something that has worked without problem for the last 20 years, but lets do it with UAC. And I blame UAC because as soon as UAC is disabled the problem never happens. In Vista UAC was so annoying the only option was disable it, Step 1: Install vista. Step 2: Disable UAC. However in Win7 I made some effort to live with UAC, because it was supposed to be drastically improved. Which of course has caused one annoying problem after another.
March 23rd, 2010 11:24pm

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