Cant connect to default shares within Vista
Even though by default the system drive is shared by default Vista has implemented security so that you can not connect to the administrative share ‘\\servername\c$’ If you are anything like me you live and breath using these admin shares all the time.
So it seems the only way to actually get this working is a registry entry.
***Before you perform any registry changes ensure you have a backup of it****
So here are the steps
Now you have Administrative shares again.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
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April 4th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Or you could turn the UAC off and it all just works like XP did but thats not really the solution is it?
You could just share the drives again yourself instead of playing in the registry.
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947232.
Do you have a way to do this on all Vista boxes in the domain?
April 6th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Hey Patto, how are ya?
I havent really looked into deploying this elcom wide yet, we have are starting to roll out some 2008 servers (DC’s) maybe they have something that we can use in the GPO, really need to sit down and look at this one, one day.
Hope all is well mate!
January 20th, 2009 at 8:01 am
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