Mapping and Scanning WinXP HE with W2K Server

[Levelvibes]

Hello all, can someone please help me out with this problem.
I have a Windows 2000 Server and a Windows XP Home Edition that I've network using a cross-over cable. The W2K server is my host and the XP HE is the client that I am trying to scan. I believe it has been infected with a lot of spyware and possible virus that have cause my system to slow down dramatically and have sometime taken over my browser by redirecting and producing a lot of pop-ups. Trouble is, I've shared the whole root of C on the XP and map it on the W2k Server but, I am only able to scan a few folders and it was unable to scan the WINNT, Program Files and a few other folders. Is there something that I am doing wrong why it can't scan these folders? Can someone give me a step-by-step approach on how to share those folders on the XP or if I need to have the same user accounts on both PC or just that I forget to enable/disable permission on either systems. I would really appreciate the help. Thanks

[Archangel122184]

The file system for windows xp is NTFS. NTFS uses file/directory level security as well as share level. Even if you set everyone to read on the share, you'd have to do the same for all directories on the root of C. Since WINNT (you use did you change the install directory? the default is Windows for XP) is the system directory, only system, administrators, and users will have general read access to it.

I highly recomend against overwriting the file permissions on your windows directory. You WILL cause system instability. Instead... try the following.

Make sure the XP has a passworded admin account. On the win2k:

start->run->cmd

net use z: \\xp_computer_name\c$ /user:admin_account

the computer will then prompt you for the password of the admin account and map z: to the root of c on the xp computer with admin privs