How do I stop the hidden Autoshares?

Morning all. I've got a Win2K and a XP box that I'm trying to make secure but for the life of me I can't stop the C$ autoshare from starting up and coming back after reboot. How the hell do I stop it? I'm pretty much gettin frustrated with M...




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#131361 - 09/19/03 05:41 PM How do I stop the hidden Autoshares?
dcxman Offline
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Morning all.

I've got a Win2K and a XP box that I'm trying to make secure but for the life of me I can't stop the C$ autoshare from starting up and coming back after reboot. How the hell do I stop it? I'm pretty much gettin frustrated with Microsoft at this point.

Thanks in advance either way.

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#131363 - 09/19/03 06:07 PM Re: How do I stop the hidden Autoshares?
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I think that it takes a registry edit for W2K: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\lanmanworkstation]

and create the AutoShareWKS field with a value of 0.

Microsoft talks about it here - at least for NT: http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q288164

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#131367 - 09/19/03 06:59 PM Re: How do I stop the hidden Autoshares?
dcxman Offline
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Excellent info Sampson.

I just had one other question concerning this registry modification. I noticed that these new values not only remove the C$ share but the ADMIN$ share as well. I was just wondering what effect would that have on a Win2K Adv Server Domain Controller running AD services?

Thanks so much Sampson either way.

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#131369 - 09/19/03 07:27 PM Re: How do I stop the hidden Autoshares?
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I didn't have a problem. At the same time, I didn't test it all that thoroughly. I was after security at the time.

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#131371 - 09/19/03 08:25 PM Re: How do I stop the hidden Autoshares?
dcxman Offline
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Understood.

I am after the same type of security.

Thanks again.

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#131569 - 09/27/03 02:47 AM Re: How do I stop the hidden Autoshares?
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dcxman

I've not tried this in a domain model, but I would guess that it would probably toast the whole setup. This of course, is just a guess. Give it a shot and let us know smile

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