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Win2k Pro HDD sharing..

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by arsandeep

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Hi,

I have a Win2K Pro Laptop which is connected to The Domain.

Since all the HDD partions have the Default Share Enabled, The administrator can access the resources of the Machine over the Network from any other machine.

Is there anyway todisable the default share option of the HDD parttions in the W2K pro machine..so that only the local user can access the HDD partions..? pls help..

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by dao251

First of all you have to have Administrator's rights when logging on your laptop.

Then, there are options:

1) you can just remove Domain Admins from the local Administrator group on your machine if you don't trust them at all.

2)disable administartive shares as described in:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q318751
(please remove extra spaces from the link above)

Please note second approach may interfere with Domain Policies and the registry key will probably be restored after next boot in domain environment.

However,
In case you are not a member of local Administrators group, you have to request your Admin for assigning you that first :-)

Any case this is philosophical problem rather than technical... I believe many CEOs and CFOs may be in danger... If they knew...

Cheers,
Dima

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