Linux has access to all my drives!

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From: James C. Hill (JamesCHill_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:05:02 -0800

Our local network has both windows, linux and macs. When a linux users views
my system they can access all my drives, shared or not. The macs can only
access the folders I have shared. What's up with that? How can I stop that? I
don't want the geek linux users access my entire drives!!!

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