Hiding a network folder

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Howdy everyone! I am trying to hide a network folder I know about the
$ trick however anyone who has show hidden files and folders can see
the folder if turned on. Here is what I would like to do. I have a
shortcut to a program, I would like to make it so they can't see and
or access the folder the actual program is in, while being able to open
it from the shortcut. Anyone know any tricks to do this? The reason
being lets say I have a program called 'Foo' and its sitting in the
C:\Temp\Foo directory and the shortcut is in C:\Temp I don't want my
users to be able to copy/cut/paste the .exe file? Anyone have any
ideas how to do this?
 
Howdy everyone! I am trying to hide a network folder I know about the
$ trick however anyone who has show hidden files and folders can see
the folder if turned on. Here is what I would like to do. I have a
shortcut to a program, I would like to make it so they can't see and
or access the folder the actual program is in, while being able to open
it from the shortcut. Anyone know any tricks to do this? The reason
being lets say I have a program called 'Foo' and its sitting in the
C:\Temp\Foo directory and the shortcut is in C:\Temp I don't want my
users to be able to copy/cut/paste the .exe file? Anyone have any
ideas how to do this?
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Protecting yourself by hiding a file is another form of security by obscurity.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/security-by-obscurity.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/05/security-by-obscurity.html

If you have Windows XP Pro, then you need to disable Simple File Sharing, and
setup non-Guest accounts with distinct permissions. If you have XP Home, you
need to upgrade. With Simple File Sharing, and Guest authentication, what's
accessible to anybody is accessible to everybody. And if you can't trust the
folks on the LAN, then you can't trust them not to find out how to defeat any
trick that you might dream up.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/file-sharing-under-windows-xp.html
 
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Howdy everyone! I am trying to hide a network folder I know about the
$ trick however anyone who has show hidden files and folders can see
the folder if turned on.
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No, not true. Hiding a share with the $ appended to the share name will not
expose that share to anyone *browsing* the network. It has nothing to do
with hidden files and folders.
Here is what I would like to do. I have a
shortcut to a program, I would like to make it so they can't see and
or access the folder the actual program is in, while being able to
open it from the shortcut. Anyone know any tricks to do this? The
reason being lets say I have a program called 'Foo' and its sitting
in the C:\Temp\Foo directory and the shortcut is in C:\Temp I don't
want my users to be able to copy/cut/paste the .exe file? Anyone
have any ideas how to do this?
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What is the goal here? Are you talking about access across a network? If so,
what locally installed application will actually *run* for a user across the
network ?

Remember, if users can *see* something, they can copy it, generally
speaking. You might explain your setup, and your ultimate goal, a little
more clearly - as there may be a better way to do this.
 
Here is what I want to do:

We have a program that runs our ERP system and users have been known to
copy the program file from there account to another account. The
problem with this is depending on the user accoun if they copy that
file it contains there user access and a user could possibly get to
screen they are not authorized to get to. Ie... I have access to some
reports some other users do not have access too. We have machines
running XP and 2000 and the 2000 machines can be set to not allow
access to the folder however access the program in the folder.
Thanks,
AC
 
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AricC said:
Here is what I want to do:

We have a program that runs our ERP system and users have been known
to copy the program file from there account to another account.
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This is a behavioral problem. Do you have a written computer use policy?
Get one in place and have everyone sign it.

Are you on a domain/using AD?
The
problem with this is depending on the user accoun if they copy that
file it contains there user access and a user could possibly get to
screen they are not authorized to get to.
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Your software has some serious problems if it can't be configured to ask for
credentials at login. I would take this up with the manufacturer.
< Ie... I have access to some
reports some other users do not have access too. We have machines
running XP and 2000 and the 2000 machines can be set to not allow
access to the folder however access the program in the folder.
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How did you do that? Note, WinXP is really no different from 2000 under the
hood.
 
The software is extremely old but like I said it runs our ERP system
and that is not changing.
 
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AricC said:
The software is extremely old but like I said it runs our ERP system
and that is not changing.
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Hi - please don't snip out all the quoted text when you reply; it makes it
very difficult for anyone to follow the thread.

If you're stuck with this software, that's a shame, but I guess it is what
it is. That said, I can't think of anything that would be different in W2k
and winXP in this regard, so perhaps you should explain in detail exactly
how you got something to work in Win2k and what doesn't work when you try it
in WinXP.
 
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