Win2k network newbie

[Remedie]

Hey everyone, love this site. Its influenced me to setup a network in my home. Now I followed the editorial " Tom's Easy Home Networking". Everything worked without a hitch :) But then to my horror I looked closer and noticed that the C drive doesn't show up on either computer. Now I've checked and they're both shared properly. I was thinking that maybe win2k runs differently than a win 9.x system. Can anyone help me ??

[Kalrog]

What do you mean it doesn't show up? When you look at the network you see the computer and any printers, but not the C Drive? Check on what the shared name is, because by default it is C$. The $ makes it an administrative share that isn't shown on a network browse. 2 ways to fix this are to share it with a different name, or to map a network drive to \\computername\C$.

The first way is to open Windows Explorer and right click on the C drive. Go to Sharing. Change the Share Name. Then check it from the other computer.

[Remedie]

It worked, thank you very much.

I'm sorry to say that you guys might here alot from me. I got the Winter How-to guide from Maximum PC and they have a tut on making a linux server from my old 386 machine. So I'm gonna try it just for practice sake if anything, and if it works then thats just a bonus. Anyway I'm rambbling (sp?) Thanks again.

[The Dude]

Glad you got it working, but you might want to think twice about sharing the whole C: drive. It would probably be a better idea to just share a folder on each PC. I would think it would be a lot safer that way. Just some food for thought.

[twwabw]

Originally posted by The Dude
but you might want to think twice about sharing the whole C: drive.

Very true, and a good point. You should also disable the default C$ administrative share as well, and never use the default "everyone" access rule. Put users into groups, let groups access the shares. NT / 2000 is all about control and security. Gotta' love it!

[Remedie]

I've set it so that only admin's can access file folders. Also I've got a basic Zone Alarm firewall running. Would there be any benefits to upgrading to Zone Alarm Pro?