Hidden shares

w^rl0rdw^rl0rd Member Posts: 329
in Windows XP Professional
Why are shares like Admin$ and C$ created and shared by default in Computer Management? Is this a security breach?
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  • pmannpmann Member Posts: 79 ■■□□□□□□□□
    They are created by default, but you can only connect to a hidden share from an account with admin privilege.

    It is possible to disable hidden shares, but deleting them is a problem since they are recreated on restart.
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  • w^rl0rdw^rl0rd Member Posts: 329
    What are they for?
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  • pmannpmann Member Posts: 79 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Theres one at the root of each hard drive (so C$, D$, E$, F$ etc.), these are to allow admin access.

    There is a share to the system root (ADMIN$), which is the location of the C:\winnt folder for instance.

    Theres another called IPC, Im not sure what that one is for, but I believe its a container for processes set off by applications which are being run over the network.

    Admins will create additional hidden shares (by adding the $) for the custom setup of that system. On my system for instance I have some hidden shares which I use as holding areas for program updates, that I can then access across the whole site/network.
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  • ajsieajsie Member Posts: 8 ■□□□□□□□□□
    pmann wrote:
    They are created by default, but you can only connect to a hidden share from an account with admin privilege..

    exactly what do you mean by that?

    i have tried getting access to the hidden shares with my admin privilige, my account is an administrator account = peter. password = lubeck.

    i typed:

    net use \\<ip>\c$ /u:<domain>\peter lubeck

    but returned a error code 1385 if i remember right.

    does anybody know how i can be able to get access?
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