I can think of a couple of ways to accomplish this. You could create unix groups that contain users that can see some shares, then remove the read/write/execute bit (or specifically the -x bit) for world/others on the directorys that you want hidden from others. these same directories need to have group ownership assigned to the group that is able to see them, and r/w/x bits set at the owner/group level. So, unix permissions may look like this: drwxrwx--- user group ..... some_dir as long as the x bit is not set on a directory, samba will not allow it to be visible at that permission level. The other way you could accomplish it would be to make the directories not browseable, and have user specific logon scripts that map the shares you want them to be able to access.