Hiding Shared Folders in Windows 2003 Server

[octavian10]

I read somewhere that in 2003 Server you can hide shared folders from beeing seen in file share lists and are not published in Active Directory. This can done by adding a $ symbol after the file name ie.SharedFolder$ I tried this and it works great, the problem I am having is I do not know how to map drives on work stations to these hidden shares, or map applications to hidden shared back end databases. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[jonbush]

hi,

if you would normally map to a share called data on a server by mapping to \\server\data, then if it is a hidden share called data$ then map to \\server\data$

the name is as you share it, but the $ just prevents it from being seen....

hope this helps

J.

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I know i've got it backed up somewhere!
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[octavian10]

It did thanks for the info.