Thread: How to Access the Administrative Share on Networked Computers

How to Access the Administrative Share on Networked Computers - Networking Computer Tips

If PCs networked together in your home or office there is a method to obtain to hard drive contents of other PCs even if they do not have shares setup. Generally you can’t see files on other PCs on network unless there have been files or folders shared and access granted to your user account.

If you are a PC administrator or a domain administrator if your network is component of a Windows domain then you can access administrative share which is unseen from non administrators.

To obtain to administrative share you type in name of PC, drive you want to obtain to and then add a $ at end. E.g. let’s say you want to obtain to administrative share on a PC named finance. You can go to address bar in a Windows Explorer window or from a run command box and type in \\finance\c$ to access C drive on finance PC. If it has another drive like an E drive then you would type \\finance\e$. Ensure that you use \\ in front of the PC name also.