Hi, I recently did a update form 2.0.7 to 2.2.3a. All run smooth. When doing a "smbclient -L server" I now see a ADMIN$ share. What's this, what is it for? Thanks Christian _(_)_ wWWWw _ @@@@ (_)@(_) vVVVv _ @@@@ (___) _(_)_ @@()@@ wWWWw (_)\ (___) _(_)_ @@()@@ Y (_)@(_) @@@@ (___) `|/ Y (_)@(_) @@@@ \|/ (_)\ / Y \| \|/ /(_) \| |/ | \ | \ |/ | / \ | / \|/ |/ \| \|/ jgs|// \\|/// \\\|//\\\|/// \|/// \\\|// \\|// \\\|// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It's Samba emulating a standard NT/2000/XP thing. A share with $ on the end is hidden. By default all hard disc partitions are shared out as eg C$ D$ etc. Also you get PRINTER$ for your printers and your Windows directory comes out as ADMIN$. So, when you go into Network Neighbourhood you wont see these shares because Windows doesn't display them. smbclient will though. They are still there nonetheless so to get at someone elses C drive you go for \\machinename\c$ ADMIN$ is there in case Windows isn't installed on C (or even called or winnt) such that \\machinename\admin$ will always find the Windows directory on a remote machine. Cheers Jon G>>> "Christian Barth" <barth@cck.uni-kl.de> 19/02/2002 08:41:49 >>>Hi, I recently did a update form 2.0.7 to 2.2.3a. All run smooth. When doing a "smbclient -L server" I now see a ADMIN$ share. What's this, what is it for? Thanks Christian
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Christian Barth wrote:> Hi, > > I recently did a update form 2.0.7 to 2.2.3a. All run smooth. When > doing a "smbclient -L server" I now see a ADMIN$ share. What's this, > what is it for?It is an IPC share needed by ASU servers to join a Samba domain. Assume it to be a duplicate of the IPC$ share. chau, jerry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org -- http://www.plainjoe.org "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--