IIRC, an administrative share is only created on a drive that exists at boot. If you plug in a USB drive, or, unplug and then plug it back in, you'll lose the administrative share.
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Christopher Bodnar < [email protected]> wrote: > W2K3 SP2 > > We have some servers at remote locations that have external USB drives. All > are configured as U:\ Recently we have been unable to write to these > drives through the administrative share (\\server\u$). We get "Access is > Denied". It's not on every machine but on more than a few. We can access > the drive locally without issues, just not through the UNC path. And all > other administrative shares are working normally (i.e. c$, d$, etc....) We > are using accounts that have local admin rights on the servers. > > Anyone run into something like this before? > > Thanks, > > > Chris Bodnar, MCSE > Systems Engineer > Distributed Systems Service Delivery - Intel Services > Guardian Life Insurance Company of America > Email: [email protected] > Phone: 610-807-6459 > Fax: 610-807-6003 ----------------------------------------- This message, > and any attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, > confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader > of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any > use, dissemination, distribution, copying, or communication of this message > is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please > notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete the message and > any attachments. Thank you. > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
