Show pagesourceBack to top Share via Share via... Twitter LinkedIn Telegram Yammer RedditRecent ChangesSend via e-MailPrintPermalink × Table of Contents Administrative shares further information NetBIOS further information Windows Shares see also: SMB Administrative shares Every disk volume on the system is shared administrative share. These are named in the form driveletter$, e.g. C$, D$ and so on. Access them with \\computername\c$. From Windows 8.1 onwards, Microsoft disabled these for security reasons. Enable them with setting the DWORD registry key LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ to 1. (source) further information Wikipedia: Administrative share NetBIOS Is used for name resolution in Windows networks. Case insensitive like NTFS defaults. further information Wikipedia: NetBIOS Last modified: 2020-12-07 04:03