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author : voidzzz | category : How-To, Tutorial, Windows, Windows 2003, Windows XP.If you want to enable or disable administrative shares, do the very simple step by step below :
This step by step will take the following effect :
- enable C$, D$, E$ or disable C$, D$, E$ (root of each partition)
- enable ADMIN$ or disable ADMIN$ (%WINDIR%)
- enable IPC$ or disable IPC$
- enable PRINT$ or disable PRINT$
- enable NETLOGON to use the administrative shares
Requirements : User with administrator rights
Step by step :
- Start > Run > type “regedit” (without the quotes) > press Enter
- Browse to HKLM > System > CurrentControlSet > Services > lanmanserver > parameters
To enable administrative shares :
- Change the value of AutoShareServer to 1
- Change the value of AutoShareWks to 1
To disable administrative shares :
- Change the value of AutoShareServer to 0
- Change the value of AutoShareWks to 0
If you didn’t find the AutoShareServer and AutoShareWks, you need to create one by doing the following :
- Right click on empty space on the right pane of regedit > New > DWORD value
- Name it AutoShareServer and put in the value you want (0 to disable, 1 to enable)
- Do the same for AutoShareWks
Reboot your computer and you’re done.
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