samba - Feb 1999 - hidden shares

When hiding shares with Samba 2.0.1, I am finding that I cannot acces the files
or directories in them. I am able to see the files and directories once I attach
to the hidden share, but when I try to open a file or directory, I get a
"Path not found" error. Can somebody explain to me what is happening
and how to fix this?


Thanks alot,

Brian Dawson
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Hi there,

I'd appreciate some help with setting up my Samba server (2.0.4)

I have a number of NT users whom I'd like to give hidden home directories.
They'll be connecting from various NT machines in the same domain;  the
samba server is already passing on auth requests to its PDC just fine.
However, as soon as someone authenticates for one share to the Samba
machine, they have access to all shares.  I mapped the samba users to
unix users with a username map, and the various shares are owned by
the corrrect users.  Here's an excerpt from my smb.conf for one of the
shares:

[salomojm$]
        comment = John Salomon's Homedrive
        path = /export/salomojm
        guest account = 
        valid users = psc_master\salomojm
        read only = No
        only user = Yes
        hide files = .
        browseable = No
        wide links = No
        follow symlinks = No

The second bit is that I am unable to hide the shares;  the way
the homes section was set up didn't make this real clear to me.
I tried doing it the NT way with a $ at the end of the share name,
but that's somehow stripped off when the share is exported.

I'd very much appreciate any help in this direction.

Thanks,

-John