Windows 2000 Administration in a Nutshell

Name

administrative share

Synopsis

A volume or folder shared by the operating system for administrative purposes.

Description

Windows 2000 Server automatically shares certain volumes and folders to support remote administration and to enable access to network printers. Many of these administrative shares are hidden shares. As a result, they are not visible in My Computer, My Network Places, or Windows Explorer, but they are visible in the Computer Management console under Shared Folders.

Table 3.2 lists common administrative shares and their function. Depending on the configuration of your machine, not all of these shares may exist on your machine. For example, the Sysvol share is present only on domain controllers.

Table 3-2. Administrative Shares

Administrative Share	Function
<drive_letter>$	For example, C$, D$, and so on; allows Administrators or Server Operators to connect to a drive’s root directory on a remote machine for administration purposes.
ADMIN$	Share name for the \Winnt system directory; used to allow remote administration of Windows 2000 machines.
IPC$	Share used for communication between machines using named pipes; an interprocess communication (IPC) method supported by Microsoft Windows operating systems.
NETLOGON	Share name for the directory \Winnt\SYSVOL\sysvol\<domain_name>\scripts on domain controllers, where <domain_name> is the DNS name of the Windows 2000 domain (e.g., mtit.com). This share is used for processing domain logon requests and ...