[PATCH] Add variable to define if a share should be hidden.

[Andreas Schneider]

David Collier-Brown wrote:
>  A janitorial question: are not the variables the opposites
> of each other, so browseable = no means the same as hidden = yes?
> 
>  If so, and if someone created a share called "foo$", then we
> could set the variable by default, and report it in testparm
> as whichever of browseable = no or hidden = yes makes sense.
> 
>  Otherwise we risk creating two disjoint variables with overlapping 
> semantics, which will look bizzare to anyone
> trying to figure out which to use... and they they'll get it
> wrong!

Doing a 'smbclient -L //service':

'browseable = No' means, that it will not get listed.
'browseable = Yes' means, that it gets listed

'hidden = Yes' means that the share is of the type STYPE_DISKTREE_HIDDEN. You 
will see the share if you call 'smbclient -L //machine'. Just do it on a 
machine you have Samba running. You will notice that IPC$ gets listed, which 
is of type STYPE_DISKTREE_HIDDEN.

> 
> --dave
> 

	-- andreas


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