Unable to connect to C$ on new computer
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Hi, everyone. I have a new computer in my office running XP Pro. It does, of course, have the usual administrative shares, including C$. However I am unable to go to another computer running Windows XP, 2000, or 2003 and map a drive to my C$. This is true even though both computers have an Administrator account that I am logged into. When I try, I get continually prompted to enter a user/password, and no matter what I enter, including Administrator with its correct password (same on the two systems), I get a message back that it is invalid. I'm stumped. I can create a share of my own and connect to it with no problem at all. But I can't map to my administrative share. I know it is not a limitation of XP Pro because my old computer had the same OS and could do it just fine. What do I need to do to get it to work? Any help, please? Thanks
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Hi, everyone. I have a new computer in my office running XP Pro. It does, of course, have the usual administrative shares, including C$. However I am unable to go to another computer running Windows XP, 2000, or 2003 and map a drive to my C$. This is true even though both computers have an Administrator account that I am logged into. When I try, I get continually prompted to enter a user/password, and no matter what I enter, including Administrator with its correct password (same on the two systems), I get a message back that it is invalid. I'm stumped. I can create a share of my own and connect to it with no problem at all. But I can't map to my administrative share. I know it is not a limitation of XP Pro because my old computer had the same OS and could do it just fine. What do I need to do to get it to work? Any help, please? Thanks
I find this to be the case if I'm on a domain, but if I log one of the two machines as a user on that machine, then it works. I don't have a central server, just an ad-hoc network, but the two machines are notebooks and set up for the domain at work in the default logon. Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
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Hi, everyone. I have a new computer in my office running XP Pro. It does, of course, have the usual administrative shares, including C$. However I am unable to go to another computer running Windows XP, 2000, or 2003 and map a drive to my C$. This is true even though both computers have an Administrator account that I am logged into. When I try, I get continually prompted to enter a user/password, and no matter what I enter, including Administrator with its correct password (same on the two systems), I get a message back that it is invalid. I'm stumped. I can create a share of my own and connect to it with no problem at all. But I can't map to my administrative share. I know it is not a limitation of XP Pro because my old computer had the same OS and could do it just fine. What do I need to do to get it to work? Any help, please? Thanks
BambooMoon wrote: This is true even though both computers have an Administrator account that I am logged into. When I try, I get continually prompted to enter a user/password, and no matter what I enter, including Administrator with its correct password (same on the two systems), I get a message back that it is invalid I recommend you to check for 2 things: 1. Make sure that your administrator account have the same password on each machine. 2. Did you make any change to the security tab or share tab of your C drive property dialog box? Make change to the permission of user account might affect your permission to access the resource over the netowrk. Good luck
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