Thats fine – IPC$ is a builtin share necessary for the CIFS protocol
Hello, I am managing a CELERA NS-480. I ran the command "/nas/bin/server_cifs server_2 -o audit" and got a list of clients. Most seem OK but I have a few that show "Absolute path of the share=\.etc" the name of the share as "IPC$".  Is this normal? I have no share by that name ".etc".  Thank you  |||| AUDIT Ctx=0x00b3269c08, ref=2, XP Client(VALM07P07) Port=1113/139  ||| NAS-KOFAX[KOFAX] on if=KOFAX ||| CurrentDC 0x0000000000=NO DC ||| Proto=NT1, Arch=Win2K, RemBufsz=0xffff, LocBufsz=0xffff, popupMsg=1 ||| 0 FNN in FNNlist NbUsr=1 NbCnx=1 ||| Uid=0x3f NTcred(0x0088a96408 RC=2 NTLMSSP Capa=0x11021) 'NAS-KOFAX\administrador'  || Cnxp(0x01144cf808), Name=IPC$, cUid=0x3f Tid=0x3f, Ref=1, Aborted=0 | readOnly=0, umask=22, opened files/dirs=0 | Absolute path of the share=\.etc
Why do I get "Absolute path of the share=\.etc" when I do a server_cifs audit?