[OT] Is Samba client not following the protocol?

[John Summerfield]

Deepak Shrestha wrote:
>> It's only left out of the way, not really hidden.  Windows even has
>> graphical tools to show you this stuff.  It seems, to me, that you're
>> coming into this with a false expectation.
> 
> 
> Not really a false expectation. Its more of a curiosity about why
> network browser in linux is showing the stuffs which are not even
> needed by the user. I will accept that if my folder$ will show but
> what about C$, D$, E$ so on an so forth which was not even shared from
> windows machine?
> 

They are shared, that's why Samba can see them.

They're administrative shares.
17:02 [summer at sysadmin ~]$ smbclient -I 10.0.0.253 -U harris%zonker 
//coco/e$ -c dir
Domain=[CLASS] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 1] 
Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]
   672fc22bc1a11e3fd89e120e37f52f2c      D        0  Wed Aug 22 13:01:21 
2007
   backups                             D        0  Thu Apr 20 12:09:36 2006
   Intel10.2                           D        0  Thu Aug 23 15:21:16 2007
   MSOCache                          DHR        0  Fri Mar 31 15:36:21 2006
   RECYCLER                          DHS        0  Tue Jan 30 14:45:27 2007
   RemoteInstall                       D        0  Tue Mar 13 15:21:57 2007
   Shares                              D        0  Mon Jul 10 16:10:46 2006
   SIS Common Store                  DHS        0  Wed Nov 28 10:12:25 2007
   System Volume Information         DHS        0  Tue Aug 21 12:50:21 2007
   temp                                D        0  Sat Jan 27 11:37:56 2007
   w2k3Server                          D        0  Fri Mar 17 14:46:16 2006
   WSUS                                D        0  Mon Feb  5 16:46:55 2007

                 48826 blocks of size 2097152. 36751 blocks available
17:02 [summer at sysadmin ~]$



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