[Samba] smbclient -L misses some shares when using NULL-Sessions (SOLVED)

Tobias Glemser tglemser at tele-consulting.com
Fri Feb 17 09:56:58 GMT 2006


List,

there seems to be a limitation to 12 chars in smbclient. If someone has 
the same problem:
	net rpc share list -S IP_target_system -U%
is the solution.

Toby

Tobias Glemser wrote on 14.02.2006 15:50:
> List,
> 
> while trying to list all shares in my network using smbclient I 
> recognized that some shares are missing. ("hostname" is a Win2K Box).
> 
>     smbclient -L -U "" -N hostname
> shows no shares (using NULL-Session-Logon as you can see)
> 
> if I use a windows box to connect to "hostname" using
>     net use \\hostname "" /User:""
> I can see all shares of this box in the explorer. On samba-based boxes, 
> smblient seems to retrieve all shares.
> 
> But don't blame it only on the Null-Session-Logon, also if I connect to 
> the box using
>     smbclient -L -U "Administrator" -N hostname
> I only get the admin-shares.
> 
> Is there an option I missed on smbclient to also see the missing share?
> And, by the way, is there a way to retrieve the admin shares using NULL 
> Session Logon like some w$nd0ws based audit tools?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Toby


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