How to close SMB session / Share / Connection using a "share" mechanism (IPC$) ?

Question

This is more to answer than to ask, since I couldn't find an answer to that.

The situation I was faced with:
From File explorer, accessing a share on a Samba Host, that asked me to log in ( \home ).

After login, I have closed the browser and any open files.

The only connection left open was an IPC$ connection
( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/networking/inter-process-communication-share-null-session ).

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-SmbConnection  
  
ServerName ShareName    UserName Credential Dialect NumOpens  
---------- ---------    -------- ---------- ------- --------  
home      IPC$         ZZ\xx   ZZ\xx     3.1.1   1  

If I wanted to login to that Samba server again with another user (for the sake of ex.), I would have been logged back in using the first user authenticated earlier.

Only way I found around that was to restart the "Workstation" service, which will also close all other shares authenticated earlier, to some degree (mapped shares with users will reconnected).

Hope I am not misleading anyone, and I would suggest you test any side effects this solution will have on your overall system.

Answer 1

Hi ,

As Gary said, use net use * /delete in cmd to clear current IPC$ connections.

Next connect up with a different user:

net use \\home\IPC$ /user:user1  

that should prompt for password, if you want to enter it directly use this method:

net use \\home\IPC$ /user:user1 user1spassword  

For your reference:

Switch Samba User with Net Use using IPC$

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Best Regards,

Candy

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