why is it that my win2k, when rebooting, has c$ shared to max users?

[abc]

when i specifically set it to NOT Shared, and reboot, it becomes shared again. I would not have thought this

is default on the part of the OS??

 

[Nothinman]

It's an administrative share, all the drives have them and admin$ points to %windir%.

You can disable them with a Policy or a registry change.

 

[abc]

well it's a laptop not connected to any lan or anything.. but to DSL though... I want to disable sharing and keep it that way even after I reboot. where in the registry.

 

[abc]

actually my mistake, not C$... just plain all of c:

when i go mycomputer, right click and properties on c:, and I see it is shared, to all users. if I enable NOT SHARED.

it undos this after reboot. why is that.

 

[mikecel79]

To quote Nothinman:

"It's an administrative share, all the drives have them and admin$ points to %windir%."

Just leave it there. You can't get to it unless your administrator anyways. The share permissions won't allow anyone to get to it unless they are an administrator on that machine. What your looking at is the NTFS permissions.