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

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Feb 26 20:53:47 GMT 2008


On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 09:51 -0500, 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!

I still think that having an option for 'actually hide this' and another
for 'tell the client to hide this' is asking for trouble.  

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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