samba - Jul 2003 - Restrict some directories in browse list

I have the problem of needing to hide some directories from the browse 
list (Win98 clients) of some users (total of about 250). I am expecting 
to create behaviour similar to the home directory where only the home 
owner can see it. I would like to make some shares visible only to users 
in a certain Unix group.

I have a share 'Automation' with a sub-directory structure and I use 
Unix user and group rights to manage that. I would like 'Automation' to 
be invisible to about 1/2 of the users (today they see it even though 
they have no access). I am using 'hide unreadable' in the sahre and it 
works great 'inside' the share but what I would like is to hide the 
share itself.

I've searched around and found an idea of including conf files per user 
or group (where I would define which shares appear) but this seems very 
complex to manage on a daily basis with a large number of users. Is 
there a better solution or would this be it?

Thanks

Miguel
Konsultex Informatica
S?o Paulo, Brazil

Try putting
browsable = no
in that share.

Miguel Koren O'Brien de Lacy (miguelk@konsultex.com.br)
wrote:
>
>I have the problem of needing to hide some directories from the browse
>list (Win98 clients) of some users (total of about 250). I am expecting
>to create behaviour similar to the home directory where only the home
>owner can see it. I would like to make some shares visible only to users
>in a certain Unix group.
>
>I have a share 'Automation' with a sub-directory structure and I use
>Unix user and group rights to manage that. I would like 'Automation'
to
>be invisible to about 1/2 of the users (today they see it even though
>they have no access). I am using 'hide unreadable' in the sahre and
it
>works great 'inside' the share but what I would like is to hide the
>share itself.
>
>I've searched around and found an idea of including conf files per user
>or group (where I would define which shares appear) but this seems very
>complex to manage on a daily basis with a large number of users. Is
>there a better solution or would this be it?
>
>Thanks
>
>Miguel
>Konsultex Informatica
>S?o Paulo, Brazil
>
>
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