hide SAMBA server name from browse list

Christian Barth barth at cck.uni-kl.de
Sat Oct 20 07:59:10 GMT 2001


What about "browsable = no" in global of smb.conf?

Christian


> You can try adding a "$" to the beginning of each share
> name, although that would probably just hide the shares
> and not the actual server itself.  In Win32
> environments there is a registry setting used to keep a
> machine from showing up in the local browse list but
> obviously that wont work for you here.
> 
> VeKTeReX
> 
> "Bognár, Attila" wrote:
> > 
> >         Hello,
> > 
> >         I have installed SAMBA 2.2.1 on our SCO UNIX box and it is working
> > fine.
> > 
> >         I have only one problem, I would like to hide the name of the SAMBA
> > server from the clients' brows list (not to show it in the  Network
> > Neighborhood). But, be able to map the shares in the
> > \\samba-server\share-name format from the 'map network drive' menu of My
> > Computer or from command line. So, I can not cancel the WINS settings from
> > the smb.conf.
> > 
> >         Is there any solution to do this ?
> > 
> >         I would appreciate any help.
> > 
> >         Regards,
> >                 Attila Bognár
> > 
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               _(_)_                          wWWWw   _
   @@@@       (_)@(_)   vVVVv     _     @@@@  (___) _(_)_
  @@()@@ wWWWw  (_)\    (___)   _(_)_  @@()@@   Y  (_)@(_)
   @@@@  (___)     `|/    Y    (_)@(_)  @@@@   \|/   (_)\
    /      Y       \|    \|/    /(_)    \|      |/      |
 \ |     \ |/       | / \ | /  \|/       |/    \|      \|/
jgs|//   \\|///  \\\|//\\\|/// \|///  \\\|//  \\|//  \\\|// 
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