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how to remove default share on my D drive
hello, i set up a windows server 2003, i have a C and D drive , how can i remove de default share from my d drive ?
i do remove it and then recreate a share that i can set the way i want but at reboot the default share come back and give right over or in addition to the one i set already.
thanks
sly
i do remove it and then recreate a share that i can set the way i want but at reboot the default share come back and give right over or in addition to the one i set already.
thanks
sly
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The share was created for administrative purposes only. The share will reappear when the server service is stopped and restarted or the computer is rebooted.
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Disable Windows hidden shares ($)
Start >Run Type "regedit" {enter}
Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\
Modify or create new REG_DWORD Entries shown below
AutoShareServer
AutoShareWks
Set the values as follows
0 = disable shares
1 = enable
WARNING, some programs and services use the hidden share feature I STRONGLY advise
you carry this out either in a test environment OR on your least used server for a trial period
Start >Run Type "regedit" {enter}
Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\
Modify or create new REG_DWORD Entries shown below
AutoShareServer
AutoShareWks
Set the values as follows
0 = disable shares
1 = enable
WARNING, some programs and services use the hidden share feature I STRONGLY advise
you carry this out either in a test environment OR on your least used server for a trial period
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thanks both, can you just tell me which program need these shares ?
Remote managment usually uses admin$ and the registry. You might want to do some inventory in some custom scripting, but if you leave c$ and just want to get rid of d$ as you said there shouldn't be anything that is affected. But you can progbably also get rid of c$ and never notice. For me when there is a vulnerability or some update or I want to check on some program or file version I'll quickly write a script to check all the computers on a domain for whatever file via c$ so I do find it useful because of the way I do things. I check file dates or actuall dll versions for 40 computers in the time it takes to write 10 lines of code.
Actually, I haven't done that in a while, I usually already know things from information I gather in logon scripts and since XP SP2 and it's firewall I don't think I can do that anymore... no, wait, I think there is a group policy firewall exception so a script will still work from a machine on a particular IP. I suppose in the future the rule of thumb will be that default shares are not accessible.
Actually, I haven't done that in a while, I usually already know things from information I gather in logon scripts and since XP SP2 and it's firewall I don't think I can do that anymore... no, wait, I think there is a group policy firewall exception so a script will still work from a machine on a particular IP. I suppose in the future the rule of thumb will be that default shares are not accessible.