Re: is it possible to share but hide a dir ?

From: Ben Smith [MS] (bensmi@microsoft.com)
Date: 07/31/02 

From: Ben Smith [MS] <bensmi@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:18:31 -0700

In article <eudTB3#NCHA.2244@tkmsftngp11>, karl [x y]
(jamescagney90210@excite.com) writes...
> I could be wrong, but I'm not sure that's true. The default administrative
> shares such as \\computername\c$ and \\computername\admin$ are only
> available to the administrators, however I believe any new shares you create
> with the $ dollar sign at the end have the same permissions as any other
> share, which by default is full access to Everyone, until you tighten the
> security or unless the NTFS file permissions are more restrictive. The
> dollar sign itself I believe just hides the netbios name from being
> broadcast in lists such as Windows explorer, so that you have to know the
> name of the hidden share to access it.
>

You are correct. 

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