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/
>
> 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.
Craig
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