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Remote Viewing of Hard Drive

Is there a way to browse a remote computer's hard drive without signing in and doing it without the remote user knowing? Of course, that is if you are also admin on that remote machine.

We use Active Directory on Windows 2003 servers.

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Neale Williams

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shornesr

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Is there a GUI or do I have to do it commandline all the way?

Neale Williams

When you type that command the windows explorer box will open and you can see the folders. You don't need to use the command line.

You could also open windows explorer and type \\*computername*\c$

Paul_W360

You can also type \\*computername*\c$ into explorer address bar. This should be bring you to the local C: drive of the remote computer. Requirements are that you can reach the remote computer via netbios and that administrative shares are enabled on the remote machine and that the account that you are logged in with is also admin on the remote machine. Also, in Local Security Polices>Local Polices>Securityoptions> be sure that "Network access: Sharing and security model for local accounts" is set to "Classic - local Users authenticate as themself". With this checked, the planned task should be possible without problems. If there are problems, report back and there will for sure be help.

DTAHARLEV

if you can't authenticate initially, click start / run / cmd
type in
net use \\computername /user:<user you wanna use>
after that you're authenticated to the users' computer, and can access it via \\computername\c$. you can even map a drive on your own machine for easier viewing:

net use k: \\computername\c$ will make your "K" drive be the remote user's C drive.

shornesr

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Thanks!