[ale] SMB Secret?

[Tory Deron]

I believe that the PRINTER$ share is set up automatically when you share a
printer on a windows machine.  This allows you to load the drivers for the
printer automatically on another windows machine when accessing the share.
It's suppose to be read only. (But it is windows, so you never know :)

Tory Deron
toryderon at yahoo.com


----- Original Message -----
 From: Randy Janinda <randy.janinda at ndcorp.com>
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 2:30 PM
Subject: [ale] SMB Secret?


> I was just playing with smbclient and found an interesting tidbit. I used
the following commands:
>
> smbclient -L windowsmachine
>
> I received the foloowing output:
>
>      Sharename      Type      Comment
>       ---------      ----      -------
>       PRINTER$       Disk
>       WINNAME_HP     Printer
>       WINNAME_ZIP    Disk
>       IPC$           IPC       Remote Inter Process Communication
>
>       Server               Comment
>       ---------            -------
>
>       Workgroup            Master
>       ---------            -------
>
> I decided to see what the "PRINTER$" was all about so I connected:
> smbclient file://windowsmachine/PRINTER$
>
> To my suprise I was allowed in and a quick "ls" showed me I was dumped
into c:/windows/system !!
>
> Can anyone explain why this happened? On a side note, I can't do any REAL
damage, only download the contents. I do have access to the machine so any
ideas are welcome.
>
> --Randy
>
>