Shares from Windows

[Liam Proven]

Comments re-ordered for clarity...


On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 08:22, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Win to Win was troublesome
[...]

I think that this is *because* you did this:

> Really glad I long ago disabled & removed the default hidden share(s) Admin$,
> C$, D$ etc from all my M$ boxes, I will now have to remember to remove all
> shares after use

> found, then out of old habit I added smb: in front of the UNC even though I
> have not installed Samba since a fresh install Xenial > Bionic, all the shares
> were then viewable normal & hidden

"SMB" does not mean or equate to "Samba".

SMB is the name of MS' file-sharing protocol.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block

 SaMBa is so-called because it implements SMB on Linux.

You only need Samba if you want to mount and use SMB shares at the
console, without a GUI.

GNOME-based (and AFAIK KDE) desktops implement their _own_ SMB support
at GUI level and do not need Samba to view or mount SMB shares.

Apple macOS also no longer uses Samba and it too can mount SMB shares,
using the smb:// protocol header.


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