[found]c$ share... Is there a way to disable the share?

[edro]

I need to have a few shares, but I don't want the c$ to be shared.

If you disable the share, it comes back after reboot.

Anyway to stop it?

 

[edro]

Found an article showing how to in the registry:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Parameters\
Add a DWORD entry called "AutoShareWks" and set the value to '0'.

It works.

Sweet...

Oh, this is in XP.

 

[Jzero]

Shares that end in $ are hidden shares and are only accessible to local admins anyway. You can't see them in explorer.

 

[edro]

Ah, so only local admins can get into them? Hmmm... then I guess this is kind of worthless

 

[Nothinman]

Shares that end in $ are hidden shares and are only accessible to local admins anyway. You can't see them in explorer.

And only in explorer, any other SMB client sees them just fine.

Ah, so only local admins can get into them? Hmmm... then I guess this is kind of worthless

Not at all, it's basically the only sure way to get onto a box over the network and it's used quite a bit in corporate networks. Just because you don't need it doesn't mean it's worthless.

 

[edro]

So for security at a LAN, you think I should run this reg hack to disable it?

 

[Nothinman]

Only if you did something stupid like using a blank password for administrator or something, only users in the administrators group can access those shares.