Administrative Shares
Overview of Admin Shares
(Administrative Shares are available in
FileBoss Version 2.6 and later)
Administrative shares (admin shares) are available on
Windows versions since Windows 2000. However
since they are really only useful within
organizations using networked computers
managed from afar they are not available on
some versions of Windows mostly those designed for use in the
home environment such as the home editions of
for Windows Vista and Windows 7. Administrative shares
provide
default shares of every hard drive on a computer.
(Note the every in every
hard drive - admin shares an be a huge
security risk if you are not careful.) Admin
shares allow local
administrators, typically System Administrators,
to manage multiple computers and access drives
and folders on remote computers without having
those remote drives explicitly shared.
The major differences between admin shares and
normal shares are:
- They don't have to be explicitly shared.
- They don't show up in normal folder lists (until
FileBoss that is) so that you have to know they exist to
access them.
- They are only available at the root drive level - there is
no such thing as an admin share for a subfolder, though
they do then allow access to folders on that drive.
- Their designation is the original drive letter
followed by a dollar sign. For example,
\\CorpServer\d$
\\CorpServer\m$\backup\accounts\daily
Administrative Shares and FileBoss
 Normally
administrative shares are not displayed in file
managers including Windows Explorer - you have
to know they are there to use them such as when
entering the destination for copying files.
However in FileBoss you can turn on the display
of admin shares in both the folder list on the
left and the contents window on the right. To
see them among the other folders use the
Explorer > Display Admin Shares
toggle from the main menu.
Since admin shares are not useful for everyone
they are turned off by default in FileBoss.
What Admin Shares look like in FileBoss
  When
turned on admin shares are are visible in both
the list of folders on the right and in the
contents window. But remember shares are only
available for networked paths so they are not
displayed for your local computer unless you
access it via its network UNC, e.g. \\server\d$.
Note in the graphic to the near right which displays the root
of a network named WIN7V. This
resource has one drive explicitly shared (J:\). The default
shares are for C:\, D:\, J:\, W:\, and X:\. The graphic
to the far right shows how the folder list will look if
Explorer > Display Admin Shares
is toggled off.
Enabling Admin Shares
Admin shares are enabled on the local machine to which
they apply. On older versions of Windows admin shares are
enabled by default but on Windows Vista and Windows 7
they are disabled by default and must be enabled for other
computers to see and access them.
To enable Admin Shares.
IF YOU
DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING DO NOT DO THIS!
Messing with the registry can turn your computer into a
useless piece of mush!
Also
please consider the security risks of enabling admin shares
before doing so.
For Windows 7 and Windows Vista
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Name: LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1
For Windows server 2000 and server 2003
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters
Name: AutoShareServer
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0
For Windows 2000 and Windows Xp
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanManServer\Parameters
Name: AutoShareWks
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 0
For Windows 7 and Windows Vista
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Name: LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1
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