Window 10 Admin share (C$) not working!

[Mike87]

Hi all,

 

I am stuck with a problem I can't fix and it is driving me crazy! Here is the problem, I want to connect from one pc to the other via \\192.168.5.109\c$. When I do that the popup tells me it can't be accessed... IP Address is right

I checked the following:

-Turned off the Firewall

-Administrator account is activated and has a password

-printer sharing is turned on

-PC is in private network and "can be found" is activated in the Ethernet options

-I deactivated the AV (Bitdefender)

-Connecting to a admin share from that pc works

-I also created a share folder on C and D just to test it. Also didn't work.

-Our network Firewall is not blocking anything.

-I checked in the computer management, both C$ and D$ are activated.

 

What else could it be?! Any idea?

Thank you for the help!

 

 

Regards

Mike

 

 

[NinJake]

From your secondary computer (non-admin) can you ping the 192.168.5.109?

If you can, all the c$ is doing is allowing the non-admin to access the C:/ drive. If you want an actual share, it's a little different.

 

Also, are you running windows 10 Pro? (And both computers are in a domain?)

[Mike87]

Just now, NinJake said:

From your secondary computer (non-admin) can you ping the 192.168.5.109?

If you can, all the c$ is doing is allowing the non-admin to access the C:/ drive. If you want an actual share, it's a little different.

Yes Ping is working.

I also tried a net use command net use x: \\192.168.5.109 /user:administrator *

this will give a error 67

Network name not found.

[Mike87]

I should also mention that both pcs are not in a domain.

[NinJake]

1 minute ago, Mike87 said:

I should also mention that both pcs are not in a domain.

Are you using Win10 Pro on both machines or just Home?

[Mike87]

7 minutes ago, NinJake said:

Are you using Win10 Pro on both machines or just Home?

Both Windows 10 Pro 1607 Build

[Taswell]

what about just trying to access it through the network section in explorer? or just type \\*computername*,enter admin credentials for the remote PC, and try to browse to the shared folder from there?

[NinJake]

Because you have Pro you "could" start a domain, but for now I would suggest setting up a homegroup for setting up a "share".

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17145/windows-homegroup-from-start-to-finish

[Mike87]

5 minutes ago, ITheSpazI said:

what about just trying to access it through the network section in explorer? or just type \\*computername*,enter admin credentials for the remote PC, and try to browse to the shared folder from there?

it doesn't matter if I use \\ip or \\DNSNAME it tells me it could not be found. I don't get to the point where it asks me for credentials.

In the network section it is not listed... strange because many other are listed there.

 

Seems like a service is not working...

 

[Mike87]

32 minutes ago, NinJake said:

Because you have Pro you "could" start a domain, but for now I would suggest setting up a homegroup for setting up a "share".

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17145/windows-homegroup-from-start-to-finish

I tried to create a homegroup but it only tells me that I've been invited to join.. funny because it is on all machines...

Is there maybe a way to reset all sharing settings to default?

[NinJake]

3 minutes ago, Mike87 said:

I tried to create a homegroup but it only tells me that I've been invited to join.. funny because it is on all machines...

Is there maybe a way to reset all sharing settings to default?

Type homegroup using the search function on the taskbar.

Select "Homegroup".

There is a setting to "leave the homegroup".

You'll have to do this on all machines that have had the homegroup, once you leave on all of them, the homegroup share will disappear and you can start over.

[Mike87]

2 minutes ago, NinJake said:

Type homegroup using the search function on the taskbar.

Select "Homegroup".

There is a setting to "leave the homegroup".

You'll have to do this on all machines that have had the homegroup, once you leave on all of them, the homegroup share will disappear and you can start over.

Nope, I just get the options:

-Advanced Sharingsettings 

-Homegroup troubleshooting

and 2 buttons with "join now" and Close

 

Sorry the attachment is in german  

[NinJake]

@Mike87 Did you try the advanced settings or the troubleshooting yet? Give them a go, in that order.

[Mike87]

29 minutes ago, NinJake said:

@Mike87 Did you try the advanced settings or the troubleshooting yet? Give them a go, in that order.

everytime I run the troubleshooter it gives me different PC names that "invited" me to join the workgroup. I don't know why they invite me all? Is that a default setting from Win10?

If I say fix this, it just tells me that it cant be fixed by the troubleshooting

 

nonetheless we have over 50 Windows Clients here and the admin share workes for all... Just that one that doesnt work...

Is there a certain eventlog that I could check? the default ones are all ok, nothing special.

[NinJake]

Check if windows firewall is blocking the connection?

[Mike87]

Just now, NinJake said:

Check if windows firewall is blocking the connection?

I turned if off completely... still not working

I event logged on as Administrator and tried to C$ but same problem...

 

which services are necessary to be running for it to work? maybe I can check that?

[NinJake]

I'm not sure what services are necessary. But if you think it's a service I would just take screenshots of a working computer's services and look if there's any differences between a working and the non-working one.

 

What is the IP address of the computer in question? Is it 192.168.5.x?

[Mike87]

Just now, NinJake said:

I'm not sure what services are necessary. But if you think it's a service I would just take screenshots of a working computer's services and look if there's any differences between a working and the non-working one.

 

What is the IP address of the computer in question? Is it 192.168.5.x?

yeah they are all in the same network.

the problem is I cant narrow it down... Is it a permission problem, connection problem, currupt service? I can't find some usefull informations. I've compared important settings with working machines but everything seems good.

Usually what we do is only activate the printer sharing, discovery in the network and activate the administrator account (that is the one we use to connect).

[NinJake]

4 minutes ago, Mike87 said:

yeah they are all in the same network.

the problem is I cant narrow it down... Is it a permission problem, connection problem, currupt service? I can't find some usefull informations. I've compared important settings with working machines but everything seems good.

Usually what we do is only activate the printer sharing, discovery in the network and activate the administrator account (that is the one we use to connect).

I'm sorry I can't really help much further with this particular issue...

 

Normally I would set up a domain and have any shares set up through the server, not to another workstation. I'm fresh out of ideas

[Mike87]

Just now, NinJake said:

I'm sorry I can't really help much further with this particular issue...

 

Normally I would set up a domain and have any shares set up through the server, not to another workstation. I'm fresh out of ideas

Ok I am also out of ideas... I think I might need to reinstall Windows

But thanks for your help!

[NinJake]

1 minute ago, Mike87 said:

Ok I am also out of ideas... I think I might need to reinstall Windows

But thanks for your help!

Yeah, reinstall might work, otherwise hopefully someone else on the forums will chime in some knowledge!

You can always try a post in the networking forum too.

[realJoe]

I have two laptops each on win10 home ver 1809 17763.437

I found a website which had a working solution for me.Activate permission for WIN10 HOME "Microsoft account"

 

Also attached this image of the information

 

Like others have indicated also I had to manually add the key for myself as it wasn't there.