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IPC$ Removal NT Server

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by suria

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How i can permanently remove IPC$ sharing from both my win NT4.0 and Windows 2000 servers. Is there any patches or tools to remove the sharing file. Urgently needed.

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Suria

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by gilesguthrie

This is an integral part of the sharing system, as it allows clients to browse to a server and discover any network shares that are running. I would therefore suggest that you could either shut down the Server or Browser services, if the system willlet you!

by joseph moore

I think that if you do the Registry hack to disable all administrative shares (C$, D$, etc) that the IPC$ share is also disabled.

Open Regedit and go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters

Double click on AutoShareServer and set it to 0 to disable it for a server.
Double click on AutoShareWks and set it to 0 to disable it for a workstation.
If the entries are not present, Add Value of type REG_DWORD. The Range is 0 (disable) or 1 (enable - the default).

hope this helps

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