How to make a samba share visible ONLY to valid users ?

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Issue

  • How to configure a samba share such that files/directories in the share can be hidden from the users who do not have access to the share.

  • How to define a share in smb.conf such that a certain folder should be visible to only certain users

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • samba-3.0.33-3.28.el5

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