RE: Persistent Shares viewable between users?

From: Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com
Date: 01/24/02 

From: Matthew.van.Eerde@hbinc.com
To: bill.mote@bigfoot.com, focus-ms@securityfocus.com
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:49:14 -0800

Under NT and 2000, you can use the /persistent switch:

net use p: \\server\share /user:%USERNAME% /persistent:yes or :no

I don't know what you can do for 9x/ME
type "net help use" for more info.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Mote [mailto:bill.mote@bigfoot.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 11:42
> To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> Subject: Persistent Shares viewable between users?
>
>
> This is really 2 questions:
>
> 1) When using login scripts the shares I've designated in
> there seem to be
> persistent by default. What I mean is the workstations will
> always try to
> re-establish the connections whether the scripts are executed
> or not. How
> do I disable this? The login script will use something similar to:
>
> net use p: \\server\share /user:%USERNAME%
>
> Forgive me if the syntax is slightly off as I'm doing this
> from memory.
>
> 2) I don't want other users to see any persistent shares as
> it can reveal
> boxes and shares they may not know exist. Is this
> information stored in the
> registry somewhere? If so, how do I get rid of it? How do I
> keep it from
> being populated there? Even if the users have no access to
> aforementioned
> boxes, "curiosity killed the cat." You know what I mean?
>
> bm
>
>

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