[OT][FC5][Samba] Share Hiding Feature

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Wed Apr 11 12:18:58 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 16:15 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> I am just wondering if there is similar thing I can do with windows
> (XP) shared folders.

Wasn't that done by sharing things with a dollar sign at the beginning
or end of the share name?

It didn't hide it from everything, just from casual observers of what's
listed in Windows Explorer.  Any hacker could have found out the hidden
shares easily enough.

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