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#3981 - 2000-08-31 11:09 AM hiding shares efficiently
Julian Offline
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Registered: 2000-04-20
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This is no KIX question but it seems you guys know a hell of a lot about NT etc.. anyway our users directories are shared but not hidden.

does anyone know of any NT tools I can use to hide the shares without having to go through them all individually?

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#3982 - 2000-09-01 12:40 AM Re: hiding shares efficiently
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You mean apart from scripting the removing+remaking of the shares? *grin*
I think not because the question of invisibility lies in the name of the share. So in order to change the visibility you have to create a new share! But ofcorse... there is that wonderfull thing they call a regisrty so maybe an automated edit is possible of:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares\ ...

If you rename the keys and reboot you'll have the new share available! *BE CAREFULL*

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#3983 - 2000-09-01 05:21 PM Re: hiding shares efficiently
Jack Lothian Offline
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Registered: 1999-10-22
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Loc: Ottawa,Ontario, Canada
Presumably you are creating so called user shares using the default method built into the User manager on the server.

Unfortunately what the User Manager creates is a not a true share. The actual share is the directory above the user directory. NT server controls access to the sub-directory through directory ownership permissions not through share permissions. (On NT the 2 concepts are different.) I don't believe that hiding these pseudo-shares is possible.

I never understood why MS decided to use such a kludgy procedure for creating user directories. I may be paranoid, but I suspect they did it to make NT workstation incompatible with UNIX & Netware servers.

My recommendation is never use the User manager to create user shares. Write a script that creates more standard user shares.

[This message has been edited by JackLothian (edited 01 September 2000).]

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