This was going to be part of another post but I figured it was pretty useful, so it got its own.
Baiscally, if you don’t have the admin$ share setup then you can apply it via the group policy by creating and adding in this .adm file:
CLASS MACHINE
CATEGORY “Network”
POLICY “Administrative Shares”
KEYNAME “System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters”
PART “Activate AdminShare on a Server” CHECKBOX
VALUENAME “AutoShareServer”
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END PART
PART “Activate AdminShare on a Workstation” CHECKBOX
VALUENAME “AutoShareWks”
VALUEON NUMERIC 1
VALUEOFF NUMERIC 0
END PART
END POLICY
END CATEGORY
The original post was here.