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Win2003: Hiding shares in Net Neighborhood
Posted by dsmcd on February 26th, 2004


Hello...

I'm looking for a way In Window 2003 server to prevent users who
are browsing Network Neighborhood from seeing shares that they
do not have access to.

Any suggstions?

Thx,
D.

Posted by Brian Desmond [MVP] on February 26th, 2004


You can add a "$" suffix to the share name, but this will hide it from
everyone. Beyond that, no, there is not a way to hide the shares. If you do
have sensitive shares, my recommendation is that you make them hidden by
naming them ShareName$ (and going to \\Server\ShareName$ instead). You can,
of course apply ACLs to all shares to control who can access their contents.

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Posted by Ulf B. Simon-Weidner [MVP] on February 26th, 2004


dsmcd says...

sorry, as far as I know there's no way to do this - however you'd be able to
hide shares by changing the name to a name with a $ at the end or you'd be able
to hide complete servers with the command net config server /hidden:yes

Gruesse - Sincerely,

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner

Posted by dsmcd on February 26th, 2004


Thanks. That's pretty much what I suspected. Shame thought.
My users are used to the NetWare file system.

Thanks.
D.


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