Home network administration

[allan grossman [ms-mvp]]

Hi, David -

You can use built-in hidden shares to get full access to
the drive without changing a buncha file permissions.
Just open

\\computername\c$

and you should have full access to a machine's c: drive.
You'll need to log on with an account that has
administrator access on the machine you want access to.

XP Home machines don't have hidden shares but XP
Professional machines do :)

hth -


>-----Original Message-----
>Help! I am running a home network on two Windows XP PRO
>machines. Here's the problem. I want FULL administrative
>access to ALL FILES AND FOLDERS on the other machine.
>When I connect, I can only see certain folders. Is there
>an EASY WAY to give me FULL ACCESS on the family
machine,
>including read,write, and execute? I have tried sharing
>the c drive on the family pc, but the "windows" folder
>wont give me access from my own computer in the next
room.
>HELP!
>.
>

[trackmanca]

and you may want to run XCACLs to ensure your permissions are set up right.
This is just an NTFS issue

--

Paul.


"allan grossman [ms-mvp]" > wrote in message
...
> Hi, David -
>
> You can use built-in hidden shares to get full access to
> the drive without changing a buncha file permissions.
> Just open
>
> \\computername\c$
>
> and you should have full access to a machine's c: drive.
> You'll need to log on with an account that has
> administrator access on the machine you want access to.
>
> XP Home machines don't have hidden shares but XP
> Professional machines do :)
>
> hth -
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Help! I am running a home network on two Windows XP PRO
> >machines. Here's the problem. I want FULL administrative
> >access to ALL FILES AND FOLDERS on the other machine.
> >When I connect, I can only see certain folders. Is there
> >an EASY WAY to give me FULL ACCESS on the family
> machine,
> >including read,write, and execute? I have tried sharing
> >the c drive on the family pc, but the "windows" folder
> >wont give me access from my own computer in the next
> room.
> >HELP!
> >.
> >