Im having a huge issue on my corporate network with Windows 7 hidden default shares (i.e, c$ d$). My regular user’s are able to browse the contents of any Windows 7 computer on the network using the local computers administrative share (\\computername\c$). These users have no admin rights and are just regular users. They are not on the local computers administrator group neither. My google searches have turned up nothing. I found a post about creating a registry key to prevent access to the administrative shares but it doesnt work. Is anyone experiencing this issue as well? Is this a MS bug or is there a fix? I know I can block access to administrative shares using group policy preferences however I would prefer not to because certain applications depend on these default admin shares to work. I just want to restrict these default admin shares to administrators only like Windows XP did. When I disjoin a machine from the network and try to access the admin shares on that disjoined machine then Im asked for admin credentials which is the way it should always work.
By the way im my Server os is Server 2003 and Im running active directory. Any help would be much appreciated as I am at a road block right now with no direct access to MS Support.