Hiding Shared Folders?

[ryhackl]

Greetings!

I have set up our network so that all users can access their roaming profile from the server (Windows 2000 Server, whose name is "Server&quot. When I access the server (through network neighborhood on one of our Windows NT4 Workstations), I can see the roaming profile folder that I'd set up earlier.

What I'd like to be able to do is hide this roaming profile folder so that the list is not so long for the user, and so they don't accidentally erase information from their profiles folder. Alternatively, I'd like the user just to see his/her own roaming profiles folder (not everyone else's).

Any suggestions? I've thought about putting the roaming profiles on one server, and the "home" folders on another server, but this may be costly (buying another server). Is there something simpler I can do?

Thanks again for any help you may provide...

- Ryan

 

[CoolClark]

To hide a shared folder add a $ sign to the end of it. Then to access it you would type \\myserver\myshare$

 

[wolluf]

Share the folders with $ suffix (eg, user shared as user$ and share permissions for that user only)?

 

[GlenJohnson]

Microsoft uses the $ for hiding system files. They DON'T recomend using it. Talked to a gent who was on one of the teams that wrote w2k, and he said he wished they never came up with that. Just an fyi. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional
glen@nellsgiftbox.com


"The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired."
John La Farge (1835-1910); U.S. artist.

 

[ryhackl]

Thanks for the tip, it works great!

Now, I'd like to be able to have just the user be able to see his/her shared folder in the //server/home directory. As it stands, when the user accesses his/her home folder (//server/home/user$), the "Home" folder is displayed, and the user can see (but not enter) all of the other users' folders.

Is there a way to limit this so that only the user's own home folder can be seen?

Thanks again for the prompt responses...

Ryan

 

[devastator]

Just map //server/user$

 

[devastator]

Actually under the users properties for home directory type in what ever drive example P: and //server/user$

Then if you have a login script you can just add net use P: /home