Sharing drives and folders

[Dungeon-Dave]

From windows: if the share has a $ in the name (eg: hidden$) then it becomes a hidden share, and unless you know of it (or can view it in Server Manager) then it won't come up in a browse list

 

From Linux: if you are using SAMBA, then using "browseable = no" against a share point means the same thing, for instance:

Code:

[backups]
  comment = My secret backups
  path = /var/spool/backups
  valid users = rod jane freddy
  writable = yes
  printable = no
  create mask = 0660
  directory mask = 0770
  browseable = no

 

By the way, if all you need is routing, firewall and AV filtering, look at running "Smoothwall" and ClamAV on the PC. It may be more efficient (and boots a lot quicker)