[Samba] Re: Hiding a share

[Jim Wharton]

Keep in mind however, this only hides the share in Network Neighborhood/My
Network Places/explorer. It is still possible to do a net view command from
the command line and see everything.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim" <jcllings at tsunamicomm.net>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 7:02 PM
Subject: [Samba] Re: Hiding a share


> THAT was handy to know! :-)
> Thanks,
>
> Jim C.
>
> Henrickson, Den wrote:
> > [sharename$]
> >         comment = Henrickson, Den
> >         path = /home/henrickd
> >         valid users = vmi+henrickd
> >         read only = No
> >
> > The $ creates a hidden Windows share.  To access you would have to do
> > something like this from Windows client
> >
> > \\servername\sharename$
> >
> > Den Henrickson
> > Network Administrator
> > Van Meter Industrial
> > 319-368-2822
> >
>
>
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