accessing c$ admin share with SP2

[gerryR]

Hi all

I'm currently running an audit to determine the current size of our users
mail box size (stored locally) for our upcoming migration to exchange. So
far I have been accessing the users local drive via \\computername\c$ and
getting properties of the mail folder. We have a mix of NT, 2000 and XP

I have now run into a problem with what I think are the XP machines with SP2
installed, they will not let me access the admin share, it just times out.

Has anyone come accross this before ? Does anyone have a solution ? Our
users are connected via wan and are in multiple locations so going around to
each machine is not an option.

Thanks for any replies
regards
gerryR

[Steve N.]

gerryR wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm currently running an audit to determine the current size of our users
> mail box size (stored locally) for our upcoming migration to exchange. So
> far I have been accessing the users local drive via \\computername\c$ and
> getting properties of the mail folder. We have a mix of NT, 2000 and XP
>
> I have now run into a problem with what I think are the XP machines with SP2
> installed, they will not let me access the admin share, it just times out.
>
> Has anyone come accross this before ? Does anyone have a solution ? Our
> users are connected via wan and are in multiple locations so going around to
> each machine is not an option.
>
> Thanks for any replies
> regards
> gerryR
>
>

Have the users turn off Windows Firewall for this operation and see if
that solves the problem.

Steve