Question

Hello, I have a laptop with a Windows XP Tablet Edition installed. I have several users setup on the laptop (mostly me and my kids).

When I try to connect to its administrative share via \DadLaptop\c$ from a Windows 2000 Professional machine, it prompts me for a user name and password. However, after I enter it, it always tells me "incorrect password or unknown username".

As a test I setup another share, called "test" and tried to connect to that. It worked fine, didn't even ask me for a password, just connected to it and that's that.

All the networking is wireless. I am connecting with an admin account (admin on the target computer). What am I missing? Why can't I connect to an administrative share?

Answer 1

If you try doing net use \\dadlaptop\c$ at the command prompt you should get a more helpful error message alternatively try doing

net use \\dadlaptop\c$ /user:dadlaptop\adminuserondadlaptop

and see if that works.

Answer 2

You need to be an administrator on the target computer, not your local computer.

Enter the password for an admin account on DadLaptop. "Administrator" with no password is likely to work.

Answer 3

What are the share permissions and what are the NTFS permissions on that folder? Usually c$ is shared automatically when a computer becomes a member of a domain and the Domain Admin group are the only users with permission to that root share. You can check this easily by looking at the file/share permissions.

Answer 4

open the permissions for the folder in question and make sure Everyone is present.

then it should work exactly the same way as with your 'test' folder, no questions asked. :)

EDIT: however, you may not want the root directory shared with everyone, so add Administrator to this list and then you should be able to connect to this folder using the Administrator credentials of the win2k machine.

Answer 5

I finally got it working and it was a combination of various advice everyone offered. Here is the bottom line - Windows XP Tablet Edition is more akin to the Windows XP Home than Windows XP Pro, even though it has a bunch of features from the Pro edition. So for networking, it must be treated as WinXP Home.

By default, it has simple file sharing enabled, thus WinXPpro things such as admin shares did not work. Once I cleared the "Use Simple File Sharing" flag in My Computer/Tools menu/Folder Options menu item/View tab, I got the standard Security and Sharing tabs on folder properties, where as before I was getting this.
,

and after I would get this:

That really was the key.