Re: Security by obscurity tip: File Shares

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's a windows thing...

Goes way back.. Win 3.0 or something..

Charles

On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 7:09 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just discovered that if you put a $ at the end of a share name it will not
> appear in the list of shares.
> Details.
> I have a directory called /home/ROB
> I created a share called robhome$ over this directory.
> On my PC I open Windows Explorer and go to \\myibmi<file://myibmi>
> The list of shares on that lpar appear.  Robhome$ is not one of those
> appearing.
> However if I go to \\myibmi\robhome$<file://myibmi/robhome$> it works.
>
> Documented at:
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-i-netserver
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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