Hardware
Whenever I logged into my system, my C drive automatically gets shared. It shows C$ in the Sharing Tab and Permission is Everyone can read that.
Why this is happening even I click on
Please help
by invincible_amritsar Accepted solution
by jruby Accepted solution
There are shared permissions and there are security settings. Shared permissions affect who can get to the device from the network, security settings affect who can access data from the local computer. Just remember the most restrictive access wins - if someone has shared access but not NTFS access then they can't get in. Same way, if they have NTFS permissions but no shared permissions, they still can't get in.
Almost all drives are given an administrative share by default (in this case C$ is an administrative share), the access for this network share should be limited to members of the Administrators group.
The group EVERYONE needs some access to the C drive as an NTFS permission, otherwise nobody would be able to logon to the system, but this is a different permission than what should be granted to the network share C$.
You can turn off administrative shares, I think it's possible through a group policy, possibly through a 3rd party app, do a search for it if you don't want to have admin shares exposed to the network.
Jim
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