Hiding samba share from browse list for unauthorised users

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Published on 2010-05-22T06:46:47Z Indexed on 2010/05/22 6:51 UTC
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Hey Guys,

I have been trying to setup my samba shares correctly.

The setup i was looking for was having a couple of shares available publicly, guest accounts are ok and can browse these shares all ok. I have this setup correctly.

The problem comes when setting up a share that only certain users can view, although i have setup a share that will only allow certain users to access. I havent been able to hide this share from guests.

I had a look into the browseable = yes option but this hides it from everyone, including the users that have logged in.

Any idea on how to tackle this?

The setup i have for this private share is follows:

[private] comment = private share for certain users path = /media/drive/private create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 writable = yes public = no users = admin

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