how to enable administrative shares

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_{Thursday, November 5, 2015 4:14 PM | 1 vote}

I have a need to push installation and this requires Administrative Shares enabled! I am at lost, how do I enable it in Windows 10 Enterprise? I google it but most of them are for windows 8 and 7 and those steps are neither applied or working on my windows 10, thanks.

Thang Mo

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_{Thursday, November 12, 2015 7:57 AM ✅Answered | 1 vote}

Administrative Shares like \computername\C$ On Windows 10, I believe it's disabled by default. When I did \computername\C$ from a remote PC, it says it could not find the path. Of course, the PC is online and working fine and I have full rights to it, thanks.

Thang Mo

As I know, by default, Windows creates some hidden shared folders. You can check if there is such shared configured on your computer:

Right-click Windows Icon -> Click Computer management -> Under Shared folders and Share, please see if there is such shared on your computer.

If you failed with such error message, please make sure your credential is for the local administrator of the computer you want to access.

still have such error, try this workaround with add a registry key in this article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/947232 （steps can be used in Windows 10）

But if there is no such administrative share on your computer, try these steps:

https://tommynation.com/enable-remote-access-administrative-shares-windows-10/

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_{Thursday, November 5, 2015 8:08 PM | 1 vote}

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, LMK thanks.

• Open File Explorer
• Right click the folder that you want to share
• Click Properties
• Click Hidden
• Give the desired sharing and security permissions

Blain

_{Thursday, November 5, 2015 11:19 PM | 1 vote}

No quite sure what you mean, perhaps you could explain more \ provide some of the links you are looking at?

The System shares are present, they can be seen in Computer Management (right click start select Computer Management), expand Shared Folders and Shares.

If you want to create a share that is hidden on the network create the share name with a $ at the end same as previous Windows versions. You will need to use Advanced Sharing under the Properties and Sharing tab of the folder to share to do that.

_{Friday, November 6, 2015 5:24 PM | 3 votes}

Administrative Shares like \computername\C$ On Windows 10, I believe it's disabled by default. When I did \computername\C$ from a remote PC, it says it could not find the path. Of course, the PC is online and working fine and I have full rights to it, thanks.

Thang Mo

_{Friday, November 6, 2015 8:59 PM | 1 vote}

I have tested this and for me can connect fine to the c$ share on Windows 10 on Enterprise LTSB Eval.

What is the exact error message you get?

_{Friday, November 13, 2015 3:03 AM | 7 votes}

Hi,

Run the following command to enable administrative shares:

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\system /v LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

You can configure it by GPO or logn script

regards,

_{Monday, November 25, 2019 4:47 AM}

The solution bey Yannick worked for me only when I shared the c: drive with the admin and then removed that share. Then it worked perfect. 

_{Monday, November 25, 2019 4:47 AM}

The solution bey Yannick worked for me only when I shared the c: drive with the admin and then removed that share. Then it worked perfect. 

_{Monday, November 25, 2019 4:48 AM}

The solution bey Yannick worked for me only when I shared the c: drive with the admin and then removed that share. Then it worked perfect. 

_{Saturday, August 1, 2020 12:24 PM}

All I had to do to fix this on Windows Server 2019 was to start the "Server" service.