Deleted shared directories still trying to be shared?

[JohnnyChangs 0]

Hello

I have a bunch of shares that were deleted, and the event log is reporting errors for each share that no longer exists. I know I can go into the registry and manually delete the entry for each share, but does anyone know of a quicker way to take care of this?

[CUViper 0]

Right click on My Computer and go to Manage. Go to System Tools -> Shared Folders -> Shares. You should see the defunct shares there, and you can right click on them and choose Stop Sharing.

 

If the shares don't show up there, you could also try creating the folders over again, reboot, and disable sharing on them.

[JohnnyChangs 0]

I forgot to mention that I am having this problem with Windows NT 4 Server, not Windows 2000.

[CUViper 0]

OK, well the second method I suggested should still work - recreate the shared directories, reboot, then turn the sharing off on them. I doubt that this would be any faster than killing them from the registry though...

[AndyFair 0]

An even easier way is to bring up a command prompt, and type:

 

NET SHARE sharename /DELETE

 

for each share you want to delete. If you just type NET SHARE, this will just show you what shares are set up on that computer.

 

Much easier than messing around with the registry!!

 

AndyF