Using the administrative C$ share

Posted: 11-23-2006, 05:53 PM

Holger

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I'm developing an application which remotely installs a service. This is
done by copying the service files' to the c$ share on the target
machine, connecting to scm, installing and starting the service, which
worked fine for all >= windows nt systems.
Now, I experienced serious problems doing this in Windows Vista (Vista
Ultimate, Build# 6000):
as it seems, the C$ share and the SCM can only be accessed remotely by
the user 'Administrator' (not by any other user which is member of the
'Administrators' group), which is disabled by default.
I also generally wonder how remote network administration may work in
this scenario.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Holger

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Kerry Brown

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Re: Using the administrative C$ share

Posted: 11-23-2006, 11:04 PM

In an active directory domain the shares are available by default. In a work
group you can create a registry entry to make them available.

http://www.jimmah.com/vista/net/filtertoken.aspx

I'm not sure about remotely connecting to the Service Control Manager.

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Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
www.vistahelp.ca

"Holger" <unasked@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> I'm developing an application which remotely installs a service. This is
> done by copying the service files' to the c$ share on the target
> machine, connecting to scm, installing and starting the service, which
> worked fine for all >= windows nt systems.
> Now, I experienced serious problems doing this in Windows Vista (Vista
> Ultimate, Build# 6000):
> as it seems, the C$ share and the SCM can only be accessed remotely by
> the user 'Administrator' (not by any other user which is member of the
> 'Administrators' group), which is disabled by default.
> I also generally wonder how remote network administration may work in
> this scenario.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Holger

Holger

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Re: Using the administrative C$ share

Posted: 11-24-2006, 03:28 PM

Many thanks for your help.
Seems to work fine using this registry entry (both c$ share and scm
connect).
I assume that this problem only exists when using local computer
administrators when you say that it works with (ads) domain administrators.

Kerry Brown wrote:

> In an active directory domain the shares are available by default. In a
> work group you can create a registry entry to make them available.
>
> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/net/filtertoken.aspx
>
> I'm not sure about remotely connecting to the Service Control Manager.
>

Kerry Brown

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Re: Using the administrative C$ share

Posted: 11-24-2006, 07:52 PM

You're welcome

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Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
www.vistahelp.ca

Holger wrote:

> Many thanks for your help.
> Seems to work fine using this registry entry (both c$ share and scm
> connect).
> I assume that this problem only exists when using local computer
> administrators when you say that it works with (ads) domain
> administrators.
>
> Kerry Brown wrote:
>> In an active directory domain the shares are available by default.
>> In a work group you can create a registry entry to make them
>> available.
>>
>> http://www.jimmah.com/vista/net/filtertoken.aspx
>>
>> I'm not sure about remotely connecting to the Service Control
>> Manager.

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