Accessing hidden windows shares?

[bookem]

I'm sure I've amnaged to access the hidden windows shares before such as C$ and ADMIN$ etc, but it doesn't want to work currently. ANyone know how to do this?

thanks,

 

[mdnky]

If you share them on the Win machine, then you can see them and access them. Win2K+ should give you a pop-up about it being unsafe to do such when you try it though...just click the "who cares" button (don't remember exactly what is says, but probably a yes or no to a 'still want to do it' type of question).

 

[bookem]

I can share and access them on the windows machine no problem - some are already shared by default like C$ etc. It's accessing them on a Mac that doesn't seem to work. If I just conenct to the IP address, they don't appear in the drop down menu, if I type the share name in, it complains about the password being wrong.

 

[bookem]

Found the answer - put the dollar at the beginning as in 'smb://servername/$share' and you can connect to the default hidden shares. Strange how it's the other way round on a PC....?