Browseable=no doesn't work properly?

Gregory Leblanc GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu
Wed Jun 30 17:43:35 GMT 1999


I was toying around with making a share non-browseable on my samba CD-ROM
tower, and I came across something that doesn't work quite the way that I
expected it to.  My thought was that making a share "browseable = no" would
make it act the same as an NT share with a dollar sign ($) at the end.  When
I go to the run menu, and type in \\NTservername\hiddenshare$, it opens up
and I can go from there, using explorer to navigate directories.  When I try
to run \\sambaserver\hiddenshare it gives me an error that the network name
cannot be found.  If I run or browse to the samba server through network
neighborhood, and then type in the \\sambaserver\hiddenshare in the address
bar (using IE4 with integration on NTwks4 sp4) it opens the share.  However,
I still can't get into subdirectories from there.  Now I can see where this
MIGHT be desired behavior for browseable = no, but this isn't want I want.
Is there some way to get that share to act like an NT hidden share, or do I
have something misconfigured?  The general and share specific sections of my
smb.conf are below.  Thanks!
	Greg

Gregory Leblanc                       A+ Certified Technician
Concordia University              http://www.cu-portland.edu
Network Support Specialist    gleblanc at cu-portland.edu


;*******************section global*****************
[global]
workgroup = ntdom
comment = CD-ROM tower
strict locking = no
share modes = yes
password server = PDC BDC1 BDC2
local master = no
security = DOMAIN
encrypt passwords = yes
wins support = no
os level = 0
domain master = no
prefered master = no
preserve case = yes
netbios name = blofeld
case sensitive = no
printing = bsd
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = False
print command = /usr/bin/lpr -r -P %p %s
create mode = 0755
add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser -d /home/samba -g samba %u

;*****************section NTRESKIT*********************
[NTRESKIT]
comment = Windows NT Resource Kit
path = /samba/ntreskit
guest ok = no 
writeable = no
browseable = no


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