On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 15:49 -0700, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > 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? ---- a little bit google searching or a little bit of study of Windows Networking would tell you what these shares are and yes, everyone would get those shares.
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