Accessing network shares in Windows 8 when running application administrator

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I'm trying to access network shares from applications run as administrator, but the application can never find the network path, even if I use UNC format. For example, I run notepad, hit Open, and type in \\myserver\C$. It works. I run notepad as an administrator and try the same, but I get Windows cannot access \\myserver\C$. (I'm copying and pasting the path in case I made a typo, but my server isn't called myserver anyway.)

I can do this in Windows 7 without a problem. How can I do this in Windows 8?

Don 01001100

Posted 2012-09-19T19:34:25.583

Reputation: 121

1Does the error message only say that it cannot access the specified path or does it say anything else? – Darius – 2012-09-19T19:37:14.323

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm getting:

Error code: 0x80070035
The network path was not found.
 – Don 01001100  – 2012-09-19T19:43:21.797

Are your devices/PCs on DHCCP or have you assigned IP manually? – Darius – 2012-09-19T19:51:29.010

I have two computers, one with Windows 7 and one with Windows 8, both DHCP. The server I don't know about. However, I can repeat the test on Windows 7 without a problem. Thanks! – Don 01001100 – 2012-09-19T21:06:15.610

Answers

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I have been having a similar problem, and it looks as though this is the solution to both of our problems.

http://www.winability.com/how-to-make-elevated-programs-recognize-network-drives/

The link in the article to the Microsoft KB is for an article relating to Windows 7 / Vista, however other answers on the Microsoft site relating to Windows 8 are the same.

**In short: UAC (User Account Control) is the problem in this situation as it tries to separate the user an administrator for greater security.

Michael Jenkins

Posted 2012-09-19T19:34:25.583

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