[Samba] "hiding" and "vetoing" files (for Samba 2.2.2 & Windows Explorer)

Darin DeCounter ddecounter at reviewjournal.com
Fri Nov 15 15:25:35 GMT 2002


We're running Samba 2.2.2 on an RS/6000 (AIX 4.3.3) using Windows 95 
clients. We've tried the "hide files" and "veto files" option in smb.conf, 
but when the shares are mapped, we can still see the contents in Windows 
Explorer. We used the wildcard for all the contents of the shares (ex. hide 
files = /*.*/). The Samba manual only makes reference to Windows 98, so is 
this even applicable on 95? Once we test on 95 and implement, we'll be 
upgrading to Windows 2000. If at all possible, we wanted to hide the entire 
share on Windows Explorer (not just the contents, but we'll take what we 
can get). Someone said when mapping, we could specify a "$" at the end of 
the share within the "net use" syntax and this would hide the entire share, 
but it doesn't work and they were doing this on an NT system (so we're not 
sure if Windows 95, 98 or 2000 even supports this).  Thanks in advance for 
any help.




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