Re: Client can see folders not shared

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From: Bob Grabbe (bgrabbe_at_umich.edu)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:14:55 -0500

I'm familiar with what you''re talking about, having worked with both Novell
and Windows for a few years. What is sounds like you're asking is the
following:
On a server, you have a share named, for example, depts. Under the depts
share you have directories for acct, hr, finance. Users in the finance group
can't see the other two directories under Netware, they only see their own
directory. Under Win2K they can see all the directory names, they just can't
open them if they don't have rights to them.
Having the Windows server hide the directory names is not possible. This is
one feature that Novell does better than MS. The only way to do it is to
create a separate share for each directory and map directly yo it instead of
to the parent dir.

Bob Grabbe
bgrabbe@umich.edu

"Tony M" <tonym@southernwoodwork.com> wrote in message
news:eflrRsT6EHA.3368@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi all,
>
> I'm coming over from Novell 5.0 so I'm new to Server2003 and I have what
> I hope is a simple question. This is a new installation set up and I am
> in the process of testing before going live on the network. I've got my
> AD set up and domain set up. I set up a couple of shares, test users and
> test groups. I believe I have my permissions set correctly on the shares
> as the users that are supposed to have access work and the users that
> don't have access are denied. My question is this: On the clients where
> the users don't have access to a share, the folder is still visible in
> explorer. If you try to access that folder you simply get an "Access
> Denied" error message. In Novell these folders would not be visible if
> the client did not have access. Is there a way to set this so that the
> folders that are inaccessible do not show up in explorer on the client
> side? I have poured through lots of info and cannot seem to find the
> answer.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Tony M
>
> PS, Clients are running WIN98se and Win2000Pro
>
>

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