Network Shares \\name\c$

Dangerous · 25 Apr 2006 at 11:42

Right im away from my PC and managed to Wake up on Lan but I havent shared the C:\ I need to gain access to my documents and then shutdown but Windows will only let me use the "Guest Account"

Can it be done?

Sp00n · 25 Apr 2006 at 11:50

Does the admin account have a password on the machine your getting on to?

Dangerous · 25 Apr 2006 at 11:52

Sp00n · 25 Apr 2006 at 11:56

You cant logon to the admin share on anything other than the admin account but you wont be able to login remotely using the login account if there is no password set

Burbleflop · 25 Apr 2006 at 12:01

You could try doing it from the command line:

net use * \\computer\c$ /user:whatever

You should get prompted for the password for the 'whatever' user.

Skilldibop · 25 Apr 2006 at 15:08

if you can browse to your PC via my network places you can get to some bits of it. Without looking at the setup i couldn't tell you exactly where you can get to. If the Admin account or specific user has a password set and the folder hasn't been made private deliberately you should be able to map a drive to it or browse to it in IE.

It should prompt for username and password when you type \\server\documents and settings\User\documents

or the alternative if no password set is \\server\documents and settings\administrator\my documents.

This will auth you to the PC as Administrator and because windows cashes passwords you can then go up levels to documents and settings and still hold Admin authentication and browse back down to a users documents.
(unless you made the folder private)

csmager · 25 Apr 2006 at 17:00

Skilldibop said:
if you can browse to your PC via my network places you can get to some bits of it. Without looking at the setup i couldn't tell you exactly where you can get to. If the Admin account or specific user has a password set and the folder hasn't been made private deliberately you should be able to map a drive to it or browse to it in IE.

It should prompt for username and password when you type \\server\documents and settings\User\documents

or the alternative if no password set is \\server\documents and settings\administrator\my documents.

How on earth?! :confused:

The only default share that exists is \\computer\c$ (or d$, e$ - all hdds), and it's only shared to the admin account/group. There is no 'documents and settings' share, unless you manually share it. If it did work as you suggest, it would be incredibly insecure.

Follow burbleflop's advice if you have the admin password or an admin users credentials to hand. Not entirely sure, but I have a feeling that the default c$ shares only exist when simple file sharing is disabled.

Dangerous · 25 Apr 2006 at 17:06

All sorted got my sister to run VNC and got the documents fine thanks

hybrid · 25 Apr 2006 at 19:26

In future mate, on the machine you are trying to access turn OFF simple file sharing.