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"This has been shared for administrative purposes. The permissions cannot be set" - help on this please!

Asked by: MPSmith4258

Hello. I recently installed a USB hard drive on my XP Pro SP2 machine. I wanted it to be accessible on the network to my other XP Pro machines, so I did what I normally do to make it accessible via network browsing, and via browsing from backup software resident on other machines, in that I went into the drive (G) properties and clicked sharing, told it to "share this folder" and set permissions for Everyone to be able to see this drive (everything except full control). Everything fine up to this point, but what I have noticed is that after a reboot of the machine into which the USB hard drive is plugged into, the sharing information is different in that it now says G$ as the share name and when I click "Permissions" it says "This has been shared for administrative purposes. The permissions cannot be set". To reset this I simply click "Do not share this folder" and then click "Share this Folder" again, but when I do it generates a message "This share was created for administrative purposes only. The share will reappear when the server service is stopped and restarted and when the computer is rebooted". Sure enough, if the pc is rebooted, the G$ share reappears. Clearly this appears to be something to do with USB?? and I wouldn't worry except that when the drive is shared in this way 'automatically' by XP as an admin share,  occasionally the contents of the drive are not visible on browsing from other computers, and I then have to reboot the machine or reset the share to 'my own' manual share as above. Can anyone shed some light on how I can stop this administrative share happening? Many thanks.

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Answers

 

by: leewPosted on 2005-07-01 at 15:35:43ID: 14351704

Administrative shares are there for a reason and I DO NOT recommend removing them.  If you want, you can share the drive a second time (shared folders can have a variety of share names, just add a share).  Besides, you shouldn't generally be messing with share permissions.  In my experience managing large networks, doing so is more of a headache than a good idea.  Rely on NTFS permissions and any share you create, leave it open full control.

(There COULD be instances where you might want the added security, but it really is minimal security as anyone who can log in to the system is going to have full access to those files if you don't apply NTFS permissions).

 

by: sirbountyPosted on 2005-07-01 at 15:40:20ID: 14351724

For a USB drive, I see no real importance of maintaining the hidden root share.
See this link (http://www.petri.co.il/disable_administrative_shares.htm)
for more information on removing it - but the registry change that would be needed is:

Start->Run->Regedit <Enter>
Navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters

AutoShareWks should be changed to 0

If you can't find the value in the registry under the exact location (i.e. it does not exist) - please right click in the right pane of the window and create it (data type: REG_DWORD)

Note: A reboot is necessary for this to take effect.

 

by: leewPosted on 2005-07-01 at 15:51:43ID: 14351789

Your right of course, for a USB drive, but my understanding is this is an all or nothing thing - to turn off the administrative shares.  Hence, I don't recommend it.  Better to just create another share.

 

by: Fatal_ExceptionPosted on 2005-07-01 at 20:16:26ID: 14352568

I seems that you are trying to share the root of the drive.  This is never a good idea, and will cause these type of issues.

What you should be doing is sharing the Folders within the drive.  If you wish, you could place everything on the drive into one separate folder, then share that folder.   As long as you are running NBT (Netbios over TCP) your browser lists should have no trouble finding this share...

At least, this is how I am seeing this issue.   :)

FE

 

by: meverestPosted on 2005-07-01 at 21:38:54ID: 14352738

have another look at the shareing information panel - you might notice that the share name is a drop-down select box.  click the drop down, and I would expect that your custom share name will be in there still.

Cheers.

 

by: MPSmith4258Posted on 2005-07-01 at 23:31:16ID: 14352983

Thanks to everyone for their help but esp to Fatal Exception for the practical solution (I never thought of that!) and sirbounty for the other workround ... cheers

 

by: Fatal_ExceptionPosted on 2005-07-02 at 03:17:35ID: 14353356

Great.  KISS, eh?  Glad we could help!

and thanks!

FE

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