Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book Quick Reference

Administrative Shares

By default, Windows 2000/XP/2003 creates hidden administrative shares so that administrators can perform various tasks remotely. Table 1 lists the most common administrative shares.

Table 1: Administrative shares.

Share	Description
ADMIN$	Shares the directory Windows was installed to (for example, C:\WINNT)
DRIVE $	Shares all available drives
IPC$	Share that represents the named pipes communication mechanism
PRINT$	Share for shared printer drivers
REPL$	Shares replication directory on a server