[Samba] Re: Automounting Windows XP share on Linux

[Jeffrey Barish]

Craig White wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 15:49 -0700, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
>> I have /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.smb such that
>> 
>> ls /smb/<name of system>
>> 
>> works for the two Win98 machines on my network (the machines get
>> automatically mounted and the directory contains "C").  When I try the
>> same command on the Windows XP machine, I get
>> 
>> No such file or directory
>> 
>> The auto.smb file that came with my OS (Libranet 3) uses smbclient to get
>> a
>> list of resources on the target.  With the Win98 machine, the output of
>> 
>> smbclient -gNL Win98machine
>> 
>> is
>> 
>> Disk|C|C on Win98machine
>> IPC|IPC$|Remote Inter Process Communication
>> 
>> But, smbclient -gNL WindowsXPmachine produces
>> 
>> IPC|IPC$|Remote IPC
>> Disk|print$|Printer Drivers
>> Disk|C on WindowsXPmachine|
>> Disk|ADMIN$|Remote Admin
>> Disk|C$|Default share
>> 
>> auto.smb makes a command option string from this output using awk by
>> looking for lines that start with "Disk" and then using the token that
>> follows the "|". In the case of the Win98 machines, it gets "C", which is
>> what gets mounted. But most, if not all, of the Disk lines from the XP
>> machine are bogus. Certainly "print$" is not a mountable drive. Nor is
>> "ADMIN$". "C on WindowsXPmachine" is a comment, not the name of a drive.
>> That leaves "C$". I don't know what effect the $ has, but otherwise this
>> entry is correct.
>> Does anyone know why I am getting the other entries?  Is there anything I
>> can do to Windows XP to suppress these bogus responses?  If anyone else
>> has a Windows XP server, do you get the same stuff back from smbclient?
> ----
> a little bit google searching or a little bit of study of Windows
> Networking would tell you what these shares are and yes, everyone would
> get those shares.
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
If everyone gets those shares, then how does everyone get auto.smb to work? 
Do they replace the standard auto.smb with one that filters out entries for
things that are listed as disks but are not?  And does everyone get these
bogus disk shares only from Windows XP, not other Windows OSs?
-- 
Jeffrey Barish