Windows 7: Can not enable Admin Shares in a Windows 7 workgroup

Willynpg · 12 Oct 2011

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?

kegobeer · 12 Oct 2011

Exactly what regedit did you apply?

Dave Atkin · 13 Oct 2011

The shares are activated by default...

Willynpg · 14 Oct 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by kegobeer

Exactly what regedit did you apply?

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?

kegobeer · 14 Oct 2011

I can go to admin shares merely by using the $ symbol, as in "\\myshare\c$". Does this not work for you?

Dave Atkin · 15 Oct 2011

\\MyShare\c$ would not work. It would be \\ComputerName\c$.

Dave

kegobeer · 15 Oct 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by Dave Atkin

\\MyShare\c$ would not work. It would be \\ComputerName\c$.

Dave

"myshare" was just a placeholder. It would be pretty silly (and impossible) to try to access the c drive from a share.

Barman58 · 15 Oct 2011

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

Windows 7: Can not enable Admin Shares in a Windows 7 workgroup

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