Shared drives now have $ on the shared name

[SoreArms]

All the shared drives in my home network have changed their name, they now have the drive letter and "$" next to it. It will not alow me to change this name. f I try to look at the share properties, it tels me that the drive has been shared for administrative purposes and i cannot change it. If I disable sharing, it resets it self when I restart. What gives? Is some one highjacking my BW and PC?

Try running AV and Adware, but aside from the usual spyware entries, nothing is found.

 

[Dial_tone]

Those are default shares created on ALL nt4/2000/xp computers, so admins can connect and do things. The $ sign makes it hidden so it won't appear network neighborhood. If you really want to share files you need to make NEW shares without a $ in them. Leave those alone.

 

[SoreArms]

Thanks
So wat happened to the sharing settings that I had set up? I have a 20g drive that all I use it for is to store albums, vids and any media shit. Now I can't get to it from my lap top.

 

[Dial_tone]

There was probably a dropdown list of all the share on that drive. The $ ones usually list first.

 

[jh1]

Yup... what they said. They are there by default.

Just create new ones with the names you like, leave them alone. You can share it under all the names you want.

 

[SoreArms]

The drop down only shows the $ name. Fuck, I am sick of trouble shooting today.

I just got a new lap top and it took me all morning to get the wireless working on it. I have a brand new siemens 802.11b wireless that i hadn't used so I tried installing it ad that shit kept cutting off from the network every 2 or 3 mins. After hours of uninstalling and re-installing i finally went on the net and found that it is a common defect of that card and XP. What a POS. Luckily I have this Linksys card.

Back to the networking issue.

 

[Dial_tone]

Depending on the OS you're using there should a "New Share" button on there somewhere. I'm sure where the old shares went but it shouldn't be hard to recreate them. If you have to do this continually there's a problem though.

 

[SoreArms]

Thanks for the help buds.

Using XP; wound up creating new shares. I got it all working now. I'm just confused as to what happened to the original share. Oh well, cest la vi, cest la vie.

 

[alien amp pharm]

I use partition magic to rename the drives, letters, etc.

 

[Code]

Just use NFS next time instead of FAT-32.

 

[SoreArms]

All my drives are NTFS.
FAT 32 is for the peeps still using 98 (so last century!)