In a pure XP pro workgroup environment with Simple File Sharing activated and basic file and printer sharing working fine, I am unable to connect to a remote administrative share c$, even though workgroup, username and password are identical. (Normal file and printer sharing is working fine.) Mapping through explorer to \\otherserver\c$, under a different username as in otherserver\username or workgroup\username, brings up two athentication dialogs: first for the "different username" which will succeed, then for "otherserver\guest" which will fail. (no password set for the guest account) Trying various combinations with NET VIEW returns "System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied." Is this inherent to XP's Simple File Sharing, or is something else going on? Is anyone with a similar setup able to connect to a remote administrative share (like c$) on their network? Cheers, Nick for replying please remove NOSPAM_ from the email address

I think You have to change C$ to C then it should work??

disable the simple file sharing, thats what i had to do

Is that the same thing as disabling File and Printer sharing for Microsoft networks? In W2K, this is: Control-Panel->Networks and Dialup connections->Local Area Connections (right click)->properties. Many thanks, Jeff

Hi Do you get an answer. Please let me know, I'm also looking for a solution. Thanks