Nov 24, 2015
Can't access the admin$ share on a remote windows pc?
Well, it turns out that you catually can't access the admin shares on windows PC's remotely if you're not part of a domain. Even if you actually are an admin user on the remote machine.
If you aren't part of a domain, UAC will prevent remote access to administrative shares.
Options:
Disable UAC (preferably not).
Set registry option which allows remote UAC for Local Accounts:
In RegEdit: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System
Add a new DWORD (32-bit): LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy = 1
Read more here https://4sysops.com/archives/access-denied-to-administrative-admin-shares-in-windows-8/