What is IPC$ share detected by Samba?

I though I don't share anything, but samba reports some IPC$ share.

sudo smbstatus --shares
Service pid machine Connected at
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IPC$ 6029 myx Mon Aug 29 13:56:37 2016

The only thing I installed in the last 15 days is Laravel + LAMP to locally run Laravel website.

Can I disable this share? And how I can see what does it actually share (dir, files,...)?

1 Answer

It's a Windows share, allowing null operations. IPC$ share and null session behavior in Windows:

The IPC$ share is also known as a null session connection. By using this session, Windows lets anonymous users perform certain activities, such as enumerating the names of domain accounts and network shares.

The IPC$ share is created by the Windows Server service. This special share exists to allow for subsequent named pipe connections to the server. The server's named pipes are created by built-in operating system components and by any applications or services that are installed on the system. When the named pipe is being created, the process specifies the security that is associated with the pipe, and then makes sure that access is only granted to the specified users or groups.