[Samba] Remote Admin

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Thu Mar 28 09:08:11 GMT 2002


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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