Windows 2000 and hiding shared directories 1

[wisemeat]

I am a Novell user and am implementing a Windows 2000 Server and I have not found any way to hide shared directories or folders that a user has access to. In NDS you can assign only those directories to an individual user that they have access to based on their rights, but windows 2000 seems to show all directories that are shared regardless of whether the user has rights to those directories or not. It seems that as soon as a directory is shared everybody sees it. How do I structure directories or user permissions to only show the appropriate directories?
HELP!!

 

[wisemeat]

Further question on shared folders in regard to login Scripts in Windows 2000. Is it possible to login to more than one subdirectory under the one mapped drive.
For example something like this
net use w: \\server\dir1\subdir1
w: \\server\dir1\subdir2 ...etc
This may solve my first question.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

[mcconmw]

There isn't a way built into 2000 to hide shares. Your only real hope is to structure your shares in a way that they don't overlap and\or map multiple drives for each user directly to each resource they need. You can't map a single drive to multiple locations either. Sorry.

 

[Armstrong]

Have you tried preceeding the new folder (directory) with a dollar sign? Example... $MyFolder Greg Armstrong
A+ MCSE+I

 

[TheOtherKiwi]

Remember to check permissions on the share (Right click directory, Sharing, Permissions BUTTON) itself as well as the file permissions on the share contents (NTFS only).

 

[DeanSpencer]

It is possible to hide sharenames with NT/2000. Goto properties on a folder and goto sharing, make sharename "whatever$" and when browsing network neighborhood that sharename will not show up. And you can still use login scripts to map the share.
"Net use h: \\ntserver\whatever$"