Comments on: Windows 7 – The $admin share

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:09:21 +0000

I don’t think there is a difference between service pack versions. Where the difference comes in is when the machine is first attached to the Network. Windows will ask you if it is a home, work, or public network. Depending on which one is picked will change firewall, and the token registry value

By: Tom Pallone

Tom Pallone — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:42:46 +0000

Steve, Thanks for the info.
I have tried this on several systems and some work fine and some do not.

Let me give some information. Have several 100 systems in a domain enviroment (2003). Some systems XP and some Win 7 – The XP systems have no issues with Admin C$ in the domain – The Win 7′s are the weird ones – we used the registry fix to create the the LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy – some of them it worked right away with/without reboot. Admins has access to the whole drive even the documents&settings local settings folder.
We have a few systems that will absolutely not work – All these systems were built by Dell. We require them to have at least Win7 Professional or Ultimate –

My question to you is – Does this work on certain versions (Service Packs) or certain versions of Windows 7

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:39:58 +0000

Glad it helped. It took me a while to figure it out myself

By: Wesley

Wesley — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:39:02 +0000

very nice man!! saved a lot of trouble installing/administering systems remotely

By: lumpy

lumpy — Tue, 25 May 2010 10:44:32 +0000

u rock man, saved me alot of problems when installing kav….

By: MSM

MSM — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:23:52 +0000

This still does not work for me. I use psexec to run a batch script that creates couple of folders under C: and then copy files from a shared folder to the local drive on the remote machine. I am running the install on to a remote machine with -u and -c options when running the batch file with psexec. Please advise. I follwed the above steps and still cannot figure out why the install does not work.

By: Fred Dixon

Fred Dixon — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:34:44 +0000

Hi, This also gave me th c$ share that I was looking for

By: John Lewin

John Lewin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:00:22 +0000

Thank you soooo much. I’ve been stuck on this for countless hours and finally google helped me get here. I knew it was a policy thing but Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level didn’t fix it. Thanks again!

By: Daniel Chatfield

Daniel Chatfield — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:38:29 +0000

Thank you so much, PSexec now works remote cmd prompt remote install etc.

By: David

David — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:15:12 +0000

Good god you saved me a lot of time. This was driving me crazy! Thanks!