Samba -- IPC$

[Alan Wilson <awilson accessus net>]

As I understand it, the IPC$ is an automatically created (in windows machine)
administrative share for machine-to-machine advertising.  The $ at the end
tells windows machines NOT to display the share.

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• From: John Holman <jholman eastax com>
• To: redhat-list redhat com
• Subject: Re: Default Samba installation unusable
• Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 13:07:07 +1000

Richard Rager wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, John Holman wrote:
> 
> > The default RH5.1. installation of Samba requires a password of some
> > kind.
> >
> > Attempts to browse even the public /tmp service from Win 95 result in a
> > popup box requiring a password for '\\SERVERNAME\IPC$'
> >
> > There is no 'IPC$' service in smb.conf, or any reference to it in any
> > documentation.
> >
> > Is this compiled in and what is the password?
> >
> > --
> k
> 
>   Samba default to nobody users account if you do not change the
> /etc/smb.conf file.
> 
>   nobody has an invalid passwd on default installs Redhat.
> 
>   So what you need to do is this as root:
> 
>  # adduser pcguest
> 
>  # passwd pcguest
> 
>  now edit your /etc/smb.conf
> 
> remove the ; in the line that saids:
> 
> guest account
> 
> Enjoy,
> 

I did that, all I get is 'invalid password' on the Win 98 box when I
attempt to connect using the password I added for 'pcguest'.

I still don't understand where the 'IPC$' comes from.

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