Any way to hide folder in DFS

[Jay]

We are migrating from a Novell 5.5 network. Under Novell
users did not see folders they did not have access to. We
are having problems replicating this behaviour under our
DFS tree. Is there any way to hide folders that users do
not have access too. Thanks for the help.

 

[Herb Martin]

DFS roots and links are AD objects.

You MIGHT (haven't tried it) be able to control the visibility by
denying permissions on the objects.

In the DFS manager, look at the Properties\Security for any particular
object or it's parent (without read on the parent you cannot see the child).

In NTFS, one can still access a file in a directory for which you have no
permission AS LONG AS you use the fully qualified path -- you just can't
browse. Again, I don't know if that works for DFS.

It's worth looking into and I would love to hear your experiment results.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

In addition to Herb's reply (and I'm interested in what you find out by
trying his suggestions, too), I'll add that I usually don't care what
folders users can *see* as long as they can't access anything in them.