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create hidden share that is only seen by permitted users on windows 2008

I am trying to create a hidden file share which is seen by permitted users on windows 2008
Can anyone help on this?

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Not totally agree with oBdA sorry ;-)

You can automatically choose to hide a share if a user has not the right to display it.

For that, you can use Access Based Enumeration (which is included in Windows 2008/2008 R2) :

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd772681(WS.10).aspx

http://msmvps.com/blogs/erikr/archive/2008/06/28/access-based-enumeration-abe.aspx
ABE only hides the folders accessed through a share ("dir \\server\share"); it does not hide a share ("net view \\server /all").
True; but for what I can understand, he just want to hide a specific folder to the users; except for specific ones.

For that ABE will do the job. The "standard" user will only be able to view the root shared folder but if he tries to open it, he will see no subfolder.
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