what is IPC$?

[dineshparikh]

Whenever I connect to Server "net use" command shows \\servername\IPC$

What is this IPC$? is this kind of Administrative share or something else

Dinesh

 

[djhawthorn]

Its an Internet Protocol Connection (I think thats what it stands for).

Basically, its a pipe/connection to the remote PC through which you've authenticated. For example, if you ran Event Viewer, then "Connect to Remote PC", you'd open a pipe to \\PC\IPC$ (and authenticate), before you actually access the remote PCs Event Viewer. MCSE NT4/W2K

 

[butchrecon]

The problem comes from the fact that the server does not recognize the username that is attempting to establish the connection. To resolve this problem you can do one of two things.
1) Add the username and password to the server for the connection. (Reccomended)
2) Enable the GUEST account to allow for everyone to connect without authentication. (Not Reccomended)
James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP, Network+

email: butchrecon@skyenet.net

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