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What's the equivalent of the smb.conf setting browsable = no in Windows?

It's not just adding a $ to the share name to make it a hidden share.

Running 

net view \\server /all

on a for a Linux share on \\server does NOT list shares where browsable = no, whereas on Windows, it DOES include administrative/hidden shares (C$, IPC$, etc)

Jeff
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  • As there appears to be some confusion what `browseable` in the samba configuration is: https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages/smb.conf.5.html#BROWSEABLE – Håkan Lindqvist Aug 28 '16 at 11:05
  • So do you know if there is a way to do that in Windows?? – Jeff Aug 29 '16 at 00:56

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Listing the shares (which is what you're doing with that net view command) and browsing the shares aren't the same thing. Hidden shares aren't browse-able.

That net view command tells the server to list all of it's shares. That doesn't mean they are browse-able on the network. They aren't. The $ hides them.

joeqwerty
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    So how do I disable listing them in Windows? That's what browsable no is doing – Jeff Aug 27 '16 at 16:50
  • I don't think it's possible. Why do you not want them listed? – joeqwerty Aug 27 '16 at 19:36
  • File server is multi tenant and one user shouldn't see shares they don't have access to. Have tried ABE but it slows down large folders too much – Jeff Aug 28 '16 at 00:42
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Let us take an example Runas command, you can have a control on this command by applying policies. This command can be disabled on local as well as remote system.

Runas command is executed in Windows Command Processor located in system32. There are so many commands such as dir, mkdir, cd, cls, etc these commands are not found as a file in system32, but whenever you execute them in Windows Command Processor they run as if there were some files related to them, in fact there is no such file in system32, just command console who is responsible for these commands to run on your system.

I hope you understand.

Inquisitive Minds
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