Group Policy to Enable Remote Access to Admin Shares

Some time ago -- back when WinXP SP2 came out -- I had to reconfigure the machines on my LAN to allow for remote access to their
admin shares. By "remote" I mean "from a different computer in the same subnet", not from the wilds of the internet :).

I did this by enabling or disabling something in group policy. But I've lost my notes, and I don't remember how to do it
anymore...which is a problem because I just added a new machine to the network.

Does anyone know what the policy tweak is to enable access to admin shares from another computer? BTW, these machines are all part
of a domain, in case that makes a difference on where I do the tweak.

- Mark

"Mark Olbert" <ChairmanMAO@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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> Some time ago -- back when WinXP SP2 came out -- I had to
> reconfigure the machines on my LAN to allow for remote access to
> their
> admin shares. By "remote" I mean "from a different computer in the
> same subnet", not from the wilds of the internet :).
>
> I did this by enabling or disabling something in group policy. But
> I've lost my notes, and I don't remember how to do it
> anymore...which is a problem because I just added a new machine to
> the network.
>
> Does anyone know what the policy tweak is to enable access to admin
> shares from another computer? BTW, these machines are all part
> of a domain, in case that makes a difference on where I do the
> tweak.
>

I never did it through group policies, but the registry setting is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Policies\system\
Add DWORD Value LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy set to 1

Hope this helps.

--
Zaphod

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"So, two heads is what does it for a girl?"
"...Anything else he's got two of?"

Thanks for the tip.

What's weird is that I have four Vista systems that allow access without that particular tweak, and one that doesn't (because I just
built it).

- Mark

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:49:01 -0400, "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <Zaphod.Arisztid.Beeblebrox@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>"Mark Olbert" <ChairmanMAO@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
>news:0t3b255u8htmeu5lfuoc72gjf81g03gfpu@4ax.com.. .
>> Some time ago -- back when WinXP SP2 came out -- I had to
>> reconfigure the machines on my LAN to allow for remote access to
>> their
>> admin shares. By "remote" I mean "from a different computer in the
>> same subnet", not from the wilds of the internet :).
>>
>> I did this by enabling or disabling something in group policy. But
>> I've lost my notes, and I don't remember how to do it
>> anymore...which is a problem because I just added a new machine to
>> the network.
>>
>> Does anyone know what the policy tweak is to enable access to admin
>> shares from another computer? BTW, these machines are all part
>> of a domain, in case that makes a difference on where I do the
>> tweak.
>>
>
>I never did it through group policies, but the registry setting is:
>
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cur rentVersion\Policies\system\
>Add DWORD Value LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy set to 1
>
>Hope this helps.