Can't access computer drive remotly via C$

Bonus12 1,116 Reputation points
2020-11-13T18:49:27.06+00:00

Hi ,

I think I have a setting or a service in my environment causing the issue , so when I try to browse to \computername\C$ I get the following errors.

Network Error

Windows cannot access \computername\C$

check spelling ...

Although I'm sure the computer is online

i'm using windows 10 1909

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  1. MotoX80 31,556 Reputation points
    2020-11-13T22:44:14.277+00:00

    The account that you are logged in with needs to be a member of the administrators group on the remote machine in order to access the C$ share.

    Open a Powershell prompt and run these commands using your target computer name. 

    Test-NetConnection -ComputerName *YourComputerName*
Test-NetConnection -ComputerName *YourComputerName* -CommonTCPport SMB
net.exe view *YourComputerName*

    Do they all execute successfully?

    Share out another folder and grant "Everyone" access on the share permissions. That share should then show up in the "net view" output.

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  1. Hebikuzure aka Murachi Akira 3,466 Reputation points MVP
    2020-11-14T03:58:11.113+00:00

    This issue may caused by UAC remote restrictions.
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/windows-security/user-account-control-and-remote-restriction

    Add LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy registry entry in

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

    and set value to 1,

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  2. Shilo Tobin 0 Reputation points
    2023-03-17T13:59:40.9633333+00:00

    Enable Network and Sharing Center.

    When accessing a shared computer via the "\computername\c$" method, this will cause the "access is denied" error.

    Unfortunately that is the only information provided on the alert.

    Note: I got stuck here, tried permissions, network reconfiguring, etc, and I wouldn't have figured it out because half of these forum posts lead to dead end answers, but an error window appeared letting me know it was disabled, then in the folder a bar appeared, once i clicked it, it enabled network and sharing and i was able to instantly access the remote computer.

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