Hi,

To use the admin shares in win7 or vista you have to enable them via a 
registry setting:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/enable-mapping-to-hostnamec-share-on-windows-vista/
 


rik

Rob Beard wrote:
> Gordon wrote:
>   
>> This may be anecdotal or not!
>> I cannot access any Windows Home Premium shares from my 9.10 Netbook.
>> However, I am in correspondence with someone who CAN access shares 
>> (including Admin shares) on Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL from 9.10
>> Can anyone else who might have access to either Windows 7 Home Premium 
>> or Professional confirm or refute this?
>>   
>>     
> I can't access the admin shares (C$, D$ etc) on the wife's PC running 
> Windows 7 from my laptop running Ubuntu 9.10 (haven't tried it from XP 
> yet so I don't know if it's something to do with changes to Windows 7), 
> but I can access shares I have created myself.  So for instance if I 
> share my User folder on Windows, I can access it from Ubuntu 9.10.
>
> What I have done is set the share permissions so that my user on the PC 
> can connect to the share with full control.
>
> Rob
>
>
>   

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