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Hard Drives always boot up "Shared"

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by pikikoko 1 view

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My computer has three OSs. Win98, NT & Win2K.
This all works under system comander. All works very well except each time I boot up in NT4 SP5 all my Hard Drives show up with the little "Share Hand". I enter the properties of each drive and remove the shared status and select "Apply" and all is well until next boot up. The machine is not connected to a network. Does anyone know if I can write a bootup script to prevent the "Sharing". Or is there some other method to removing the "Share" so it does not deploy at each boot. At this time this does not present any problems. I would like to know how control this and prevent it from happening.

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by dlw6

You can't control it, but you can prevent it.

NT 4 shares all its hard drives automatically in what it calls an "Administrative Share." For example, C: drive will be shared as "C$", D: will be "D$" and so forth. These shares are accessible onlyto the Administrators group, and you can't rename them or, as far as I know, remove them.

Having said that, if the machine is not on a network, you can prevent the shares by going to Control Panel .. Network, click the Services tab, and Remove Server and Workstation from the list (click each one and select Remove). If you are dialing into an ISP with this machine using the NT 4 OS, removing Server and Workstation may affect that.

My advice is to not worry about the administrative shares too much.

Good fortune,
Don

by jacob.sloan

The answer is simple: you CANNOT remove the sharing. The hard drive shares (i.e. C$, d$, e$, etc) is there to allow access from a remote computer if on a network. It is a fundamental part of NT, which it uses to provide access to resources on yourcomputer locally and remotely (if you had a network).

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