Accessing Windows 7 C$ on Workgroup PCs

It is a bit tricky to get the admin shares and remote psexec access onto Win7 workgroup machine without a couple of tweaks.

This solution was obtained from the link below.
http://chall32.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/how-to-enable-access-windows-7.html

1.
Create the following registry key to enable the remote administrative shares on a Windows 7 machine in a workgroup

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System

LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy       REG_DWORD        1


2.
In the firewall control enable File and Printer Sharing in the "All programs to communicate through the Windows Firewall"

keywords
administrative share
admin share