I have tried to enable the $ shares on a windows 7 64 bit machine in a workgroup.
i have tried the regedit that is suggested on the internet and added the Qword without sucess. Has anyone sucessfully done it?
The shares are activated by default...
2) Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
3) Add a new value DWORD ( 32 Bit or 64 Bit, depends on OS version), name itLocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy and give value 1. Restart the machine and check the share now. It must work.
I was only offered a Qword in 64 bit value not a Dword I have a HEX value of 1. Should the value be Decimal?
Last edited by Willynpg; 14 Oct 2011 at 11:11. Reason: to add more info
I can go to admin shares merely by using the $ symbol, as in "\\myshare\c$". Does this not work for you?
\\MyShare\c$ would not work. It would be \\ComputerName\c$.
Dave
The default admin (c$) shares were disabled from Vista onwards for security reasons, If you need to share at the root level you should manually add a share with a unique name, (eg, "Cdrive"). These can then be accessed normally
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