by Nicholas Head
7. September 2009 08:56
Have you ever tired to access the administrative (C$, D$, etc) shares on a Vista or Windows 7 machine, and even though you’re using an account that has access, it won’t let you in? Usually says, “Access Denied”. Well, this post is for you.
I run into the problem myself sometimes, forgetting that by default, if UAC (User Account Control) is enabled under Windows Vista/Windows 7, it doesn’t allow access to the admin shares. You have to add a registry key then reboot to enable them (basically making them work like they did before).
To manually add this registry key, visit the following path using REGEDIT:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
In that folder, create a new DWORD item with a value of “1”, and name it “LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy”. Reboot your computer and you should now be able to access administrative shares remotely.
If you’d rather just double-click on a .REG file and import it into your registry, I’ve provided that below. Hope this helps out at least one other person!
Download EnableAdminShares.zip
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