I have /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.smb such that ls /smb/<name of system>
works for the two Win98 machines on my network (the machines get automatically mounted and the directory contains "C"). When I try the same command on the Windows XP machine, I get No such file or directory The auto.smb file that came with my OS (Libranet 3) uses smbclient to get a list of resources on the target. With the Win98 machine, the output of smbclient -gNL Win98machine is Disk|C|C on Win98machine IPC|IPC$|Remote Inter Process Communication But, smbclient -gNL WindowsXPmachine produces IPC|IPC$|Remote IPC Disk|print$|Printer Drivers Disk|C on WindowsXPmachine| Disk|ADMIN$|Remote Admin Disk|C$|Default share auto.smb makes a command option string from this output using awk by looking for lines that start with "Disk" and then using the token that follows the "|". In the case of the Win98 machines, it gets "C", which is what gets mounted. But most, if not all, of the Disk lines from the XP machine are bogus. Certainly "print$" is not a mountable drive. Nor is "ADMIN$". "C on WindowsXPmachine" is a comment, not the name of a drive. That leaves "C$". I don't know what effect the $ has, but otherwise this entry is correct. Does anyone know why I am getting the other entries? Is there anything I can do to Windows XP to suppress these bogus responses? If anyone else has a Windows XP server, do you get the same stuff back from smbclient? -- Jeffrey Barish -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
