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Amir Pashazadeh
Asked: 2016-12-05 21:45:27 +0800 CST

Samba shows folders which are not accessible for a user

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My Linux system has two users, and I configured samba on it, so some shared directories are accessible by both uses, and some are accessible by one of them.

The problem is when I access the computer from Windows clients and authenticate using the second user (with less permission), the folders which are not accessible are shown (although they are not browsable), how can I hide these folders from this user?

Here is a part of /etc/samba/smb.conf file:

[anonymous]
    path = /repo/samba/anonymous
    writeable = yes
    browseable = yes
    valid users = user1, user2

[archive]
    path = /repo/samba/archive
    writeable = no
    browseable = yes
    valid users = user1, user2

[user1]
    path = /repo/samba/user1
    writeable = yes
    browseable = yes
    valid users = user1

[user1-ro]
    path = /repo/samba/user1-ro
    writeable = no
    browseable = yes
    valid users = user1

When user2 tries to access the server, they see user1 and user1-ro folders too, and I want to hide these two for them.

I shall mention that the linux system runs Ubuntu-MATE 16.04.

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2 Answers

  1. Add:

    hide unreadable = yes

    to the share definitions in your config.

    This is called "access-based enumeration" in SMB vernacular.

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  2. Best Answer

    I'm not sure why but @techraf answer didn't work (although according to docs it should), but I found another solution and it worked. I've added 

    access based share enum = true

    to /etc/samba/smb.conf file.

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