bin/117315: [smbfs] mount_smbfs(8) and related options can't mount administration mounts (c$, d$, etc) on Windows PCs

[Tom Uffner]

The following reply was made to PR bin/117315; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tom Uffner <tom at uffner.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, gcooper at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/117315: [smbfs] mount_smbfs(8) and related options can't
 mount administration mounts (c$, d$, etc) on Windows PCs
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:17:24 -0400

 I have reproduced this recently, but it seems to be a change in the
 way Windows behaves and not a bug.
 
 Microsoft seems to have finally realized that the {drive}$ shares are
 a huge security hole and decided that only members of the Administrators
 group are allowed to mount them.