C$ drive sharing - Windows NT
This is a discussion on C$ drive sharing - Windows NT ; I'm in need of a little help. I have a home network with 4 PCs on it.
Two of PC's are running Windows 2000 Professional, and the other two
are running Windows Me. I've just added a new PC to ...
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C$ drive sharing
I'm in need of a little help. I have a home network with 4 PCs on it.
Two of PC's are running Windows 2000 Professional, and the other two
are running Windows Me. I've just added a new PC to the net. It's
running Windows XP Home Edition. I'm going to be using this PC as my
'main' one. What I need to know is how to set up the two W2k PCs to
share their C$ drives with the XP unit. The 2 Me PCs were easy. All I
had to do was right click the C drive icon and click share and Voila!
The XP PC's got full access no problem. However this does not work
same with the W2k ones. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
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Re: C$ drive sharing
On Win2k/Xp/2003 boxes the root of a volume is shared out by default,
but only accessible to administrators on the box. Go to start--run and
enter compmgmt.msc to bring up computer management and drop down the
shares and you should see them. In a workgroup context (as opposed to a
domain context) you'd have to map to the c$ drive in the context of the
local administrator account. This is done by clicking "connect as a
different user" and entering \
account> and the password. For example if your workgroup name is
"frank" and your local admin account is root, then you'd connect as
frank\root.
Hope this helps.
