samba - Mar 2003 - Is there a way?

Is there a way to make clients not see "hidden" shares?  Like we have
an
"I:" drive, but it's actually a "Common-Share"...

Thoughts?

Joel

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On Wednesday 12 March 2003 01:52 pm, Esler, Joel Contractor
wrote:
> Is there a way to make clients not see "hidden" shares?  Like we
have
> an "I:" drive, but it's actually a
"Common-Share"...
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Joel
what clients? what servers? and what does "Invisible" mean?

I mean do you want to make a samba share non-browseable to windows users 
(1), or are you afraid linux users might see a windows share despite 
calling it "COMMON$" so it's hidden to windows browsers (2)?

If your concern is (1) then you just need to add "browseable = no" to
the
share definition. If your concern is (2), then you need to switch from NT 
to samba, so you get a (1)-type configuration...

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Esler, Joel Contractor wrote:
> Is there a way to make clients not see "hidden" shares?  Like we
have an
> "I:" drive, but it's actually a "Common-Share"...
Appending a $ on to a share name will make it not browseable in Network
Neighborhood.

Also saying "browseable = no" will also make it not browseable.

Also a DFS may be of interest to you. We have departmental shares in a DFS root
share. That way, everyone sees drive "X:", with their department's
folder inside.
All the departmental shares are in "X:" but the users only see the
ones they have priveleges to.

DFS info: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#MSDFS

Does this help?

mtoal