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Note
The IPC$ share is used by all SMB/CIFS clients to obtain the list of resources
that is available on the server. This is the source of the list of shares and printers when browsing
an SMB/CIFS server (also Windows machines) using the Windows Explorer to browse resources through
the Windows Network Neighborhood (also called My Network Places) through to a Windows server. At
this point, the client has opened a connection to the \\server\IPC4 resource.
Clicking on a share will then open up a connection to the \\server\share.
MS Windows 2000 and later (as with Samba) can be configured to disallow
anonymous (i.e., guest account) access to the IPC$ share. In that case, the
MS Windows 2000/XP/2003 machine acting as an SMB/CIFS client will use the
name of the currently logged-in user to query the IPC$ share. MS Windows
9x/Me clients are not able to do this and thus will not be able to browse
server resources.
The other big problem people have is that their broadcast address,
netmask, or IP address is wrong (specified with the
interfaces option
in smb.conf)
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