[Samba] Re: Hiding a share
John H Terpstra
jht at samba.org
Sat Mar 1 01:57:23 GMT 2003
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Jim Wharton wrote:
> 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.
Correct. That is why samba has a 'browseable = [ Yes | No]' option.
Go figure.
- John T.
>
> 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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