Vista to Vista admin access in a workgroup

Posted: 06-14-2007, 11:52 PM

Andrew Haswell

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Very simple, 2 new machines, fresh builds, one running home premium, one
running ultimate. Both have identical initial users created, same name, same
password. I cannot whatever i try, seem to connect from one to the other
through a $ share. Name resolution is working but after thinking a while it
always comes back asking for credentials. Both machines get ip from DHCP,
both have their network set to private, file sharing is on. Turning windows
firewall off makes no difference, it is not a name resolution issue or a
firewall issue it is authentication..

can anyone tell me what i need to do to perform this simplist of functions
and make the connection to \\name\c$ because its really annoying me now. I
know if i was in a domain it would work seemlessly, but invariably its a
pain in the rear in a workgroup.

thanks for any help

Andrew Haswell
MCSE

Responses to "Vista to Vista admin access in a workgroup"

Robert L [MVP - Networking]

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Re: Vista to Vista admin access in a workgroup

Posted: 06-15-2007, 12:36 AM

Vista is different from previous OS to share C$. This link may help,

Vista issuesBy default, Vista administrative shares e.g. C$, D$) are not shared by default for security reasons. You should create your own shares to share your drives ...
http;//www.chicagotech.net/vista/vistanetissues.htm

Bob Lin, MS-MVP, MCSE & CNE
Networking, Internet, Routing, VPN Troubleshooting on http://www.ChicagoTech.net
How to Setup Windows, Network, VPN & Remote Access on http://www.HowToNetworking.com
"Andrew Haswell" <ahaswell@edoras.co.uk> wrote in message news:edcVT8trHHA.632@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
Very simple, 2 new machines, fresh builds, one running home premium, one
running ultimate. Both have identical initial users created, same name, same
password. I cannot whatever i try, seem to connect from one to the other
through a $ share. Name resolution is working but after thinking a while it
always comes back asking for credentials. Both machines get ip from DHCP,
both have their network set to private, file sharing is on. Turning windows
firewall off makes no difference, it is not a name resolution issue or a
firewall issue it is authentication..

can anyone tell me what i need to do to perform this simplist of functions
and make the connection to \\name\c$ because its really annoying me now. I
know if i was in a domain it would work seemlessly, but invariably its a
pain in the rear in a workgroup.

thanks for any help

Andrew Haswell
MCSE

Dave R.

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Re: Vista to Vista admin access in a workgroup

Posted: 06-15-2007, 12:52 PM

"Andrew Haswell" <ahaswell@edoras.co.uk> wrote in message
news:edcVT8trHHA.632@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> Very simple, 2 new machines, fresh builds, one running home premium,
> one running ultimate. Both have identical initial users created, same
> name, same password. I cannot whatever i try, seem to connect from one
> to the other through a $ share. Name resolution is working but after
> thinking a while it always comes back asking for credentials. Both
> machines get ip from DHCP, both have their network set to private,
> file sharing is on. Turning windows firewall off makes no difference,
> it is not a name resolution issue or a firewall issue it is
> authentication..
>
> can anyone tell me what i need to do to perform this simplist of
> functions and make the connection to \\name\c$ because its really
> annoying me now. I know if i was in a domain it would work seemlessly,
> but invariably its a pain in the rear in a workgroup.
>
> thanks for any help
>

Although it is the preferred approach, if Robert L's suggestion of
creating new shares is impractical there is a way to allow local
administrators to use their administrator powers over the network:

In the registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\system\
Add DWORD Value LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy and set it to 1

Regards,

Dave

Andrew Haswell

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Re: Vista to Vista admin access in a workgroup

Posted: 06-15-2007, 01:11 PM

Thankyou both for your responses,

i will be using the registry edit, i think its ridiculous that i cant access
the admin shares by default, even if i map a drive manually and use
machine\username as credentials.

But at least now i can get on

Andy

"Andrew Haswell" <ahaswell@edoras.co.uk> wrote in message
news:edcVT8trHHA.632@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> Very simple, 2 new machines, fresh builds, one running home premium, one
> running ultimate. Both have identical initial users created, same name,
> same password. I cannot whatever i try, seem to connect from one to the
> other through a $ share. Name resolution is working but after thinking a
> while it always comes back asking for credentials. Both machines get ip
> from DHCP, both have their network set to private, file sharing is on.
> Turning windows firewall off makes no difference, it is not a name
> resolution issue or a firewall issue it is authentication..
>
> can anyone tell me what i need to do to perform this simplist of functions
> and make the connection to \\name\c$ because its really annoying me now. I
> know if i was in a domain it would work seemlessly, but invariably its a
> pain in the rear in a workgroup.
>
> thanks for any help
>
> Andrew Haswell
> MCSE

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