How can I stop the automatic shares from being created ?
Well, Windows NT as well as Windows 2000, always creates automatic shares for all drives, i.e. C$, D$, E$. You may wonder, what is the
meaning of $ in the share name. It means a hidden share, where it will not appear in the Browser window. This feature is quite dangerous,
where you might have your drives shared without your knowing !! You may ask: "Can I stop the automatic shares ??", and you will smile
happily, because YES, you can stop it !!
To do this, please follow these steps carefully:
Run the Registry Editor, by clicking Start - Run - type "Regedit" (Enter)
Open the hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
Create a value, by clicking menu Edit - Add Value. The value's name is called AutoShareServer (if you have NT Server) or AutoShareWks
(if you have NT Workstation). The value's type should be DWORD and click Ok. Type 0 for the value's content.
How can I reboot NT machines remotely ?
Sometimes we need to reboot a certain NT machine, but we are too far from it. I wish there is a way to reboot a NT machine from another computer.
If you have NT Resource Kit, you could use the Shutdown Manager. Or the simplest way is to use shutdown.exe (yes, from NT Resource Kit again),
as shown in this example: