Cannot access ADMIN$ on Windows XP Home from Vista Home Premium
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computers, from my Vista computer I can access ADMIN$ on any other Vista
computer, but I can not access ADMIN$ on any of my Windows XP computers. I
just get "access is denied".
e.g.
GARY is a Windows XP computer
DOG is a Vista Home Premium computer
at a command prompt:
> DIR \\DOG\ADMIN$(works fine)
> DIR \\GARY\ADMIN$access is denied.
In an earlier slightly more complicated attempt, I traced a problem down to
a call to WNetAddConnection2, where a valid username and password on the
remote computer was provided. It worked fine Vista to Vista, but always
failed with "access denied" XP to Vista.
I can access any other shared folder I set up on Windows XP:
e.g.
> DIR \\GARY\DAVIDworks fine.
On GARY:
>NET SHAREShare name Resource Remark
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C$ C:\ Default share
print$ C:\WINDOWS\System32\spool\drivers
Printer Drivers
ADMIN$ C:\WINDOWS Remote Admin
IPC$ Remote IPC
David C:\Documents and Settings\Gary Deley\My Documents\David
SharedDocs C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL USERS\DOCUMENTS
The command completed successfully.
and on GARY, in a failed attempt to fix this, I added to the registry this
key value which previously didn't exist:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\lanmanserver\parameters]
"AutoShareWks"=dword:00000001
didn't help.
Soooo, I'm out of ideas. Any ideas? (Is it possible that Windows XP Home
doesn't allow accessing ADMIN$?)
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