On Thursday 22 November 2007, dexter wrote: > Mick pisze: > > Thanks Stroller, > > > > On Thursday 22 November 2007, Stroller wrote: > >> On 22 Nov 2007, at 08:43, Mick wrote: > >>> ... > >> > >> My experience is that stuff like this is not completely-obvious-to- > >> newcomers in Samba, and I wouldn't rely on it working just like you > >> might expect. > > > > Hmm, I know what you mean! :) > > > >> You might consider posting on the Samba mailing lists, > >> which are quite busy. > > > > Thanks, I'll look into it. > > > >>> The Windows file manager still displays the > >>> (Linux) user home directory and a file called printers. Is there a > >>> way of > >>> removing these two items from the Windows client view? > >> > >> The easy way to do this is to remove the [homes] & [printers] > >> sections of your smb.conf (NOT smb.cfg, on my system), but of course > >> that also prevents access to them. > > > > Is there a way to do this selectively for different users? Some cannot > > be trusted to even look after their own linux home directories and > > leaving them visible will give rise to unnecessary queries. > > I remember that there is an option to include selective config files > based on conditions - it's been some time since my last samba > installation (a complex one) but it looked something like this > > include /etc/samba/<hostname>.cfg > > It's just of the to of my head, but You should get the idea, in the > example above, if a host with certain <hostname> was connecting to samba > server, a specific file was included. > Unfortunatelly I don't remeber exact syntax, and tons of other things - > I just suggest looking in this direction
Thank you all, I have most of it working now. Commenting out [homes] made the users' home directories disappear. The funny thing is that although I have commented out [printers], it is still visible in Windows Explorer. -- Regards, Mick
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