[Samba] hide files

[Marcus Schopen]

John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Marcus Schopen wrote:
> 
> 
>>John H Terpstra wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Marcus Schopen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I read  Volker Lendecke's *great* Samba book, but can't find an answer
>>>>to the following question:
>>>>
>>>>is it possible to hide, but read and write to files in a share? I'm not
>>>>talking about "hide files", because these files are still viewable on
>>>>windows (if option is set on client).
>>>>
>>>>The "veto files" option seems just to denie the access, so these files
>>>>are not read and writable anymore.
>>>>
>>>>I'm looking for something that is like apache's browseable option for
>>>>directories. You can't see what's in a directory, but can access via URL
>>>>_if you know the URL_. Or in other words: I want to share a directory
>>>>with read and write permissions, but don't want people to see what's in
>>>>this directory. In best case it should look like an empty directory, but
>>>>still be able to access (read+write) to file like
>>>>\\server\share\whatever.txt
>>>>
>>>>Is that possible and if yes how?
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes. Use Unix file system permissions as you should. Read chapter 13 of
>>>the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf file that can be obtained from:
>>>
>>>http://us1.samba.org/samba/devl/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
>>>
>>>Basically, you need to set the directory permissions to write and execute,
>>>but NOT read. That way the files in the directory will not be listed.
>>
>>
>>Hmmm, I set directory setting to chmod 773, but then I can't read or
>>write anymore to files in this dir:
>>
>>drwxrwx-wx    3 root     root         4096  1. Aug 05:23 .
>>-rwxrwxr--    1 root     root         3418  1. Aug 03:44 pool.ini
>>-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root         3418  1. Aug 03:44 pool2.ini
>>
>>I connect from windows as a user from group "all other" (-wx). Reading
>>pool.ini is not possible anymore, as well as writing to pool2.ini.
>>
>>What's my mistake?
> 
> 
> I just tried this and found that Windows will not allow word to open the
> file because it can not find it does not find the file in a directory
> lookup. This seems to be completely limiting.
> 
> If this can be done in Windows XP but not in Samba then please file a bug
> report on bugzilla.samba.org. Thanks.

No, WindowsXP and Windows2000 can't access too. My conclusion: it's not 
possible with Samba. Right?

Cheers,
Marcus

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