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Sharing (seeing shared) folders over LAN
I created shared folders on the NT4 Exchange server and to my surprize, they were visible on the NT and Win2k systems, but invisible on the Windows'9x machines. We determined that any folder name we created that was longer than 8 characters became invisible on the Win 9x computers. However, the Win9x systems do

hellish networking
20 I know that the NTFS drive (C) in machine 1 is invisible from machine 2 = because=20 FAT drives can't "see" NTFS drives. What you can do is set up a userid and password and assign that person to the shared folders that you've created. Then when you try to access them and it asks you for the password,

Access Based Folder Enumeration
... computer management > System Tools > shared folders > shares, it should have ipc$ and admin$ but they lose and made the server and domain cannot browse in the network. The administrative shares are called "c$" and "d$", and they are invisible at all times. You can connect to them like so: net use x: \\SomePC\c$

hiding folder names
They can use files and folders from the machine (I have users/permissions) set well for that. The win2000 machine can easily print to the win98-connected printers. The printer doesn't even show up with the regular shared folders when viewed from the other computers. It's invisible. Anyone have an idea for me?

Shared Folders
I am sharing my files just fine, but in the shared folders icon, all my files are invisible. What I mean by this , is that the names of the files are not there until I put my curser over one and click it. I have tried to remove path, refresh, and everything else I can think of. Why are the files not showing up

XP-Home Ed - Sharing & Security?
Also, if you so a search on this patch and search for something like sharing, and the patch number - you'll find that you can fix the problem by changing one registry key, rather than deleting the patch. There's also an MS hotfix which has had mixed feedback. Anyway it's good that the invisible files / folders

Start Menu's Context Menu
Mark-Allen Perry mark-al...@alphasystems.ch microsoft public windowsnt misc From what I understand the only way to make shares 'invisible' to users is to suffix them with a '$'. The share will not appear in the list *but* will be available if they type it in. Permissions permitting. -- Mark-Allen Perry ALPHA

Method to delete traces of names of shared folders
Is there a way to do this that will make internal network be invisible to internet? Every where I look on web for info they say do not enable file and print If somebody were able to hack into the machine thru the enabling of the file and print sharing, could they only access the folders I designate as shared

XP Machine invisible on network unless explicitly called
I understand that you want to make the shared folder TOPSECRET invisible for users who do not have permissions. I assume that TOPSECRET is the top level shared folder. ABE only works and can hide the subfolders/files within top level share folder if user does not have permissions. Hope this information answers your

fresh new bluetooth synch issue - help
COM> Data: venerd́ 19 marzo 1999 19.24 Oggetto: IMAP shared folders -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I am looking at the possibility of setting up a shared, UNIX System Administrator Ramapo College of New Jersey +1.201.684.6821 - -- On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

2kpro, Why are all shares visible, even non-permissive
NetBIOS broadcasts locate computers and shared disks and folders on the network and allow them to appear in My Network Places and Network Neighborhood. So, it has to be enabled in all computers. As the laptop is invisible to network, netbios to be enabled on laptop.

Win2000 @work xp@home
Doing so i can see the shared folders on the other computer now, so finally something works, yet I cannot see the computers in the network. Now I have made a shared folder on both computers & I send the files to that shared folder & can see it on both computers, so as of now with this method I am able to surf the

W32.Nimda.enc and Norton AntiVirus2002
... When I make a new folder with a new name and place the files that were in the invisible folder into the new folder then they are visible on the network. I have shared the drives of one of the computers so I can get to them from the other. However, only SOME of the folders in the drives are accessible... and

Invisible Win2k Machine
However, you can add a '$' to the end of the share name and it will look as if it is invisible to network neighborhood. Then you could map a drive to a user you do want For some reasons, i want that the user who don't have rights on a folder doesn't see it on Win95 Explorer. Just like it is in a Novell Network.

XP/98 not communicating
A new one will automatically be built, but all memory of your shared folders will have been lost and require creation again. You can also try trashing "Users & Groups Data File" and restarting. This time you will have to re-create information about sharing users and what "guest" is allowed to do.

NT system shared folders
To create an invisible share, append a $ symbol on the end. Like "myspecialfiles$". To map to it - you must know the name in advance - which only you do know. The current situation in my small inhouse-LAN is as follows: I can access remote shared folders if I enter directly the UNC path like

shared folders vs mapped drives
On the XP side, the Vista Public tree is visible and acessible from the invisible XP machine but I can't browse the workgroup. I can see the shared folder tree for the problem machine in the Network Places of my other 3 XP machines and can browse the network...but I just discovered that the system doesn't

shared folder is invisible to win9x (fine for XP)
Folders on the 2k machine are shared with the two 9X machines. The shared folders contain several levels of nested subfolders. When the top-level shared folder has a name that is more than 12 characters long (including spaces), it is invisible to the Windows98 and 95 machines. The name length of the subfolders

Access Based Folder Enumeration
... 9x will not see them in NN. i don't think also, remember that share names that end w/ '$', are invisible to any No, it's not a long directory name and it isn't hidden by a "$". When I try to share a folder from a Win2000 machine, I cannot see the shared folders in network neighborhood on other machines.

Invisible shared folders
Since other computers can access this computer's shared folders, the Guest account is already enabled for network access. Entering the command to enable access would have no effect, good or bad. Disabling network access via the Guest account doesn't make a computer invisible. It causes a logon prompt to appear when