Hidden SMB shares become visible after FW upgrade

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StephenB wrote:

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SauvageSausage wrote:

I can't hide them on  the admin panel, as there are no shares called "data", "home" or "admin"

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You are seeing these because you are accessing the NAS with admin credentials.  If you use different credentials, these three will disappear.

 

Thanks. I don't remeber I logged there with admin creds, but I gave it a try:

PS> net use \\abox /delete
The network connection could not be found.

PS> net  use * /delete

There are no entries in the list.

PS Administrator> net use * /delete

There are no entries in the list.

That's confusing because I have my own username and password saved. And guess what... admin resources have gone!  "RNXconfig", "Windows backup" and my home folder are there though. It seems my user is logged now.

Now I wonder why my user is logged there. I suppose it's a question to Microsoft, but still.

There is a chance some of my scripts have logged as admin on NAS, but a quick look through the scripts didn't show any suspicious code, or even an admin log/pass. I wish it was a Windows glitch!

 

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Do you mean they weren't supposed to be visible to anyone?  A share is either hidden or it's not.  

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I would like to see it a per-user option one day, BTW.

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Did you double-check that file explorer isn't configured to view hidden files and folders?

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In fact, the answer is positive in a way Explorer is configured to show the files with the "HIDDEN" attribute. But hidden shares are another story. Windows to hide the share just append a control sign to the share name (and the control sign is "$" so I suppose isn'), and Samba is actually removes the share name from the listing.

(for the sake of science, just created a folder called "test$" on NAS - and Win10 Explorer doesn't display it)

P.S. are there any new features in Win10 networking part? if they changed the way it stores the saved credentials, it could be kinda answer - at least, the part with NET USE * /DELETE with confusing output messages and behaviour.

(Shame on you, Microsoft. Is it that hard to show the username and the log as/logout button in the Explorer window? Why do users need to employ black magic for such basic operations?)