DFS and share view

[Guest]

Hi

I'm on the way to migrate a Netware file server to a Windows 2003 server. I
installed a test environment to simulate the new shares and rights I have to
define.
I use DSF to group all my shares, publish the root in Active Directory and
use a logon script to map one drive to the DSF root. This works fine but
there is something I don't feel fine or perhaps don't do fine:

when a user logs in, he sees all the DFS links as sub directories of my
maped drive, even those links (shares) he has no access. Of course he cannot
access the share though he has no right for it, but this solution is very
unconfortable when you have for example a list of 20 subdirectories and can
access only 5 of them, having an error message for all the others.

My question: isn't it possible to show only the shares (DFS links), the user
has access ? Is there another way to make it possible ?

Thanks for any advice
Nicolas

 

[Brian Komar]

when a user logs in, he sees all the DFS links as sub directories of my
maped drive, even those links (shares) he has no access. Of course he cannot
access the share though he has no right for it, but this solution is very
unconfortable when you have for example a list of 20 subdirectories and can
access only 5 of them, having an error message for all the others.

My question: isn't it possible to show only the shares (DFS links), the user
has access ? Is there another way to make it possible ?

This will be possible with Windows Server 2003 SP1. You can then enable
ABDE (Access Based Directory Enumeration). This behavior reflects the
Novell experience you were used to previously. The user will only see
folder to which they have permissions.

Brian

 

[Guest]

Thank you. I am downloading the RC2 and will test it soon after in my test
lab. Has Microsoft already announced when the final release will be available
?

Nicolas

 

[Guest]

one more thing, now that I've installed the SP1 RC2...
Where do I find your description ABDE ?
I did search for 20 minutes on the microsoft web and did find no
information, so if you have more information, a link or something else, I
would appreciate.

Thanks
Nicolas