I've only seen this behavior with NT boxes. NT creates pseudo shares for
every local drive.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike & Tracy Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 2:33 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] samba
>
>
>
> > > Hmm, Based on that I decided to try running kruiser as root before
> > > changing any permissions. I su'ed and started kruiser
> from konsole, I
> > > then logged in with my user name/password and it worked. Is this a
> >
> > I could get it to work by setting suid. But I don't know
> about security
> > concerns.
> >
> > But now I can see onlt C: on the remote machine.. it has 2
> more drives
> > (partitions).. E: and F:.. but I see them as E$ and F$ and
> can't access
> > them.. what does this mean?
>
> Those would be hidden shares on a windows box, meaning you
> wouldn't see them
> as shared items from another windows box unless you had
> administrator name
> and password; and then you would have to access them by
> putting the '$'
> after the share. By default you would have
> \\computername\admin$ which
> would put you at the %systemroot%,
> \\computername\driveletter$ which would
> put you at that drive letter root and \\computername\print$
> which would give
> access to the printer.
> I don't have samba experience yet, but I would think that
> your problem is in
> the way your linux box is interpreting the other shares - are
> they actually
> shared to the rest of your network?
>
> Hope that helps, Mike
> >
> > -sarang
> >
>
