Shares from Windows

[Grizzly]

22 October 2018  at 12:10, Liam Proven wrote:
Re: Shares from Windows (at least in part)

>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:

Win-to-Win shares were always troublesome, even before I found out about the 
(ever growing) list of "Hidden" shares that M$ set up by default, it got worse 
IMO with each new release of Windows,

BUT my main point was that the hidden share(s) I had made were visable as soon 
as I had entered smb:\\HostName, which is not a fault with Ubuntu but a 
security hole on Windows end?, I have not (as yet) tested if this holds true 
for later Windows (8.1 & 10) but does on Win 7 & I expect XP (not got Vista 
anywhere so ...)  

>> 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".

Thank you, I stand corrected, the only time I had a call to use smb: before was 
when I did have Samba installed, and IIRC smb: was in the instructions, given I 
only really need to read Win from Linux not the other way, I'm sorted

>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.