[PATCH] Add variable to define if a share should be hidden.
Andreas Schneider
anschneider at suse.de
Tue Feb 26 17:44:35 GMT 2008
David Collier-Brown wrote:
> Can you expand on this just a bit? I interpret you as saying that
> MS returns information about shares, but marks ones ending in $ as
> STYPE_DISKTREE_HIDDEN, so browsers can decide to show/not show them.
>
If you create a share with a $ at the end (foo$) on a Microsoft system, then
it is of the type STYPE_DISKTREE.
If you do the same on a Samba system the share is of the type
STYPE_DISKTREE_HIDDEN. This is wrong.
Only ADMIN$ (root folder) IPC$ PRINT$ and partiontions (like C$, D$) have the
STYPE_DISKTREE_HIDDEN flag set on Windows.
If a share has the STYPE_HIDDEN flag set, you're not able to change permissons
or something like that. As far as I understand they are administrative shares
which can't be changed.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_share
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314984
http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kbase/WindowsTips/WindowsNT/RegistryTips/Hide/HiddenWindowsNTAdministrativeSharesCD.html
> Do they have anything like browseable = No, or do they _always_ return
> all shares?
>
I don't think that windows has a feature like 'browseable'.
> If so, the two variables don't overlap, and it's merely tricky code,
> nothing new for MS (;-))
The intention of 'hidden = Yes' is to be able to create shares like 'C$'.
>
> --dave (being the anal janitor) c-b
-- andreas
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