Hiding Shared Folders

[BillN]

I have a single network share, with NTFS rights preventing people from
opening certain folders. Some people try clicking on the folders, and
get the access denied message. Then they call help desk. Not good.

Any way to hide the folders that a user does not have rights to?

BillN

 

[Roger Johnston]

Bill, try adding a $ after the share name... IE TEST$

 

[Kevin D. Quitt]

Any way to hide the folders that a user does not have rights to?

You can hide them from everybody by adding a $ at the end of the name.

 

[Ricardo M. Urbano - W2K/NT4 MVP]

I have a single network share, with NTFS rights preventing people from
opening certain folders. Some people try clicking on the folders, and
get the access denied message. Then they call help desk. Not good.

Any way to hide the folders that a user does not have rights to?

BillN

As the other posters indicated, you can hide a share name from browsing
by naming the share w/ a '$' (w/o the quotes) at the end of the share
name.

However, you as asking about hiding file system objects. While trivial
in the NetWare world, it is simply not possible under Windows/FAT/NTFS.

Even though you can set the hidden attribute on a folder or file, if the
user doesn't already have the rights to undo that, they can always turn
on the setting to view hidden files within Windows Explorer or use the
'/a' switch for the dir command at the command prompt.

hth