Sharing of complete$ drives may no longer be a default in WinVista / 2008.
Some of the other$ shares such as IPC$ and ADMIN$ may be needed to manage your Linux shares remotely using windows compmgmt.msc and remote registry. http://book.opensourceproject.org.cn/sysadmin/samba/sambao3rd/opensource/0596007698/samba3-chp-9-sect-7.html On 7/2/10, Gaiseric Vandal <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I missed part of the conversation, but what would be the purpose > of this feature? (I am not even sure why Windows does this.) > > > > On 07/02/2010 02:15 PM, Robert LeBlanc wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Atkinson, >> Robert<[email protected]>wrote: >> >> >>> Interesting to see you say it's dangerous. The way the Windows version >>> works >>> is that you have to be part of the Administrator group to be able to see >>> them, which I would have thought secure enough? >>> >>> >> This is not true, the share is advertised to anyone who asks. The Windows >> client only hides shares that end with a '$'. By default Windows gives >> access only to administrators (by default), but they are by no means >> hidden. >> >> Robert LeBlanc >> Life Sciences& Undergraduate Education Computer Support >> Brigham Young University >> > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
