[Samba] hide files

[John H Terpstra]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Marcus Schopen wrote:

> John H Terpstra wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Marcus Schopen wrote:
> >
> >
> >>John H Terpstra wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Marcus Schopen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>>I read  Volker Lendecke's *great* Samba book, but can't find an answer
> >>>>to the following question:
> >>>>
> >>>>is it possible to hide, but read and write to files in a share? I'm not
> >>>>talking about "hide files", because these files are still viewable on
> >>>>windows (if option is set on client).
> >>>>
> >>>>The "veto files" option seems just to denie the access, so these files
> >>>>are not read and writable anymore.
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm looking for something that is like apache's browseable option for
> >>>>directories. You can't see what's in a directory, but can access via URL
> >>>>_if you know the URL_. Or in other words: I want to share a directory
> >>>>with read and write permissions, but don't want people to see what's in
> >>>>this directory. In best case it should look like an empty directory, but
> >>>>still be able to access (read+write) to file like
> >>>>\\server\share\whatever.txt
> >>>>
> >>>>Is that possible and if yes how?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Yes. Use Unix file system permissions as you should. Read chapter 13 of
> >>>the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf file that can be obtained from:
> >>>
> >>>http://us1.samba.org/samba/devl/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
> >>>
> >>>Basically, you need to set the directory permissions to write and execute,
> >>>but NOT read. That way the files in the directory will not be listed.
> >>
> >>
> >>Hmmm, I set directory setting to chmod 773, but then I can't read or
> >>write anymore to files in this dir:
> >>
> >>drwxrwx-wx    3 root     root         4096  1. Aug 05:23 .
> >>-rwxrwxr--    1 root     root         3418  1. Aug 03:44 pool.ini
> >>-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root         3418  1. Aug 03:44 pool2.ini
> >>
> >>I connect from windows as a user from group "all other" (-wx). Reading
> >>pool.ini is not possible anymore, as well as writing to pool2.ini.
> >>
> >>What's my mistake?
> >
> >
> > I just tried this and found that Windows will not allow word to open the
> > file because it can not find it does not find the file in a directory
> > lookup. This seems to be completely limiting.
> >
> > If this can be done in Windows XP but not in Samba then please file a bug
> > report on bugzilla.samba.org. Thanks.
>
> No, WindowsXP and Windows2000 can't access too. My conclusion: it's not
> possible with Samba. Right?

Samba implements the Windows file and print protocols. If wjat you want
can not be done in Windows then it is unlikely that you can do it with
Samba.

- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org