Re: cloak

From: Mike Brannigan [MSFT] (mikebran_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:06:04 -0000

"bb" <bb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8A08C000-6440-4319-BF73-F10C8DC1145A@microsoft.com...
> hide network shares from users that do not have access to them. that is
> prior
> to "cloak" they can see the share but cannot access the ones they do not
> have rights to. with "cloak" users cannot even see those shares they do
> not
> have access to. i was thinking there were command line tools or policies
> that
> could do the same thing.
>

If you name the network share "name$" instead of just "name" your users
cannot see it and can only attach to it if they know the name and even then
can only access files and folders they have the appropriate share level and
file level permissions too.

So what does the third party product actually do that you cannot do now for
free in the base Windows Server product ?? 

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"bb" <bb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:8A08C000-6440-4319-BF73-F10C8DC1145A@microsoft.com...
> hide network shares from users that do not have access to them. that is 
> prior
> to "cloak" they can see the share but cannot access the ones they do not
> have rights to. with "cloak" users cannot even see those shares they do 
> not
> have access to. i was thinking there were command line tools or policies 
> that
> could do the same thing.
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
>>
>> "bb" <bb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E52C60C0-FB6E-4191-8E67-368F91E967FD@microsoft.com...
>> > i'm evaluating a product called "cloak" from scriptlogic. i was 
>> > thinking
>> > there were some commandline tools, reg hacks, etc., that could do the 
>> > same
>> > thing? anyone know of them?
>>
>> It depends on what you're trying to do!
>>
>>
>>