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Posted by Roger Abell [MVP] on November 17, 2005, 2:05 pm
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No trick.
Permissions for admin shares is fixed at Administrators Full Control.
You must have some other issue.
When you said
> For instance, if I simply do "dir \anxpmachine\admin$", I get the
> directory
> as I would expect. When I run the same one on the NT4 boxes, I get "Access
> is
> Denied".
it was not clear where this worked and not. Specify target machine
vs one in use for each attempt to clarify. Are you certain that the
account in use is granted network login rights on target machine ?
Are you within a domain using a domain account ?
> I'm trying to use psexec in order to automate a nightly process.
> Unfortunately the process has to run on a NT4 machine and we all have XP,
> which is why I would like to use psexec so the user doesn't have to move
> over
> to the other machine.
>
> psexec works by copying itself to the target machine using the admin$
> share.
> However it appears that this share is not accessable from the network on
> NT4!
> For instance, if I simply do "dir \anxpmachine\admin$", I get the
> directory
> as I would expect. When I run the same one on the NT4 boxes, I get "Access
> is
> Denied".
>
> So obviously I need to set the permissions for this share. So I went to
> that
> machine, selected the folder (C:\winnt) and selected Sharing. Sure enough,
> there's ADMIN$ in the list. However, when you click the Permissions
> button,
> it responds with an error saying it's shared for admin purposes, and can't
> be
> changed!
>
> Anyone know the trick here?
>
> Maury
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