Re: autosharewks changes to 0 due to gpupdate

From: Ray at <%=sLocation%> [MVP] (%=sLocation%)
Date: 05/05/04


Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 13:44:37 -0400

So wait, you have a group policy disabling the admin shares, you manually
reset the shares on the workstations, and then the computers rehonor the
group policy and disable the shares? This sounds like exactly what you
should expect to happen, unless I'm misreading something.

Ray at work

"Dave" <dmalsam@cableone.net> wrote in message
news:800b01c431d9$e66f88f0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Since putting a group policy in place on our W2K domain
> controller, all of the XP and 2000 workstations
> automatically change their autosharewks to 0, thus
> disabling their administrative shares. This is not good
> for us as we run scheduled software at night that needs
> to have these shares on the computer in order to fully
> scan the workstation. I set the settings back per remote
> registry, yet when the workstation grab or refresh their
> group policy it changes it back to 0. Very annoying. Is
> this a bug, or is there a setting somewhere in my group
> policy I must change to prevent this. Thank You



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