samba - Mar 2002 - Remote Admin

hi!

with a security scanner i found out, that samba always shares admin$, as you
know a remote admin share. for security reasons i would like to unshare
admin$.
please help.

thanx!  =)

chris weber

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On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Chris Weber wrote:
> hi!
> 
> with a security scanner i found out, that samba always shares admin$, as
you
> know a remote admin share. for security reasons i would like to unshare
> admin$.
It is a hardcoded IPC share for supporting the ASU family of servers.
It poses no security risk as it is not really a file share.






cheers, jerry
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