[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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