hidden files on a LAN

how do you hide files over a network, I know that once you hide files on
machine one you cannot see them but on machine 2 if they have the option to
view hidden folder on the can see the hidden file.

Any ideas

Thanks
Rowan

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:48:09 GMT, "Rowan Sheridan"
wrote:

how do you hide files over a network, I know that once you hide files on
machine one you cannot see them but on machine 2 if they have the option to
view hidden folder on the can see the hidden file.

Any ideas

Thanks
Rowan

Rowan,

Security By Obscurity - hiding things to protect them - always has its
limitations. What you hide can eventually be unhidden by somebody. Even the
administrative share, such as C$, can be seen by administrators.

If you are concerned about preventing access to certain files, you need to use
Advanced File Sharing - which is an option only for files and folders on an NTFS
volume, on Win XP Pro / Win 2000. If you have Win XP Home, yer outta luck.

More about file sharing, between all different versions of Windows:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=87c0a6db-aef8-4bef-925e-7ac9be791028&DisplayLang=en

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

Rowan,
Once you lock your data down using NTFS, you might want to look into a new
product called "Cloak" which then hides the folders & files that the user
does not have permission to access. Out of sight... out of mind. (or as Chuck
put it "Security by Obscurity")

Here's the site: http://www.scriptlogic.com/eng/products/cloak/

-Brian

"Chuck" wrote:

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:48:09 GMT, "Rowan Sheridan"
wrote:

how do you hide files over a network, I know that once you hide files on
machine one you cannot see them but on machine 2 if they have the option to
view hidden folder on the can see the hidden file.

Any ideas

Thanks
Rowan

Rowan,

Security By Obscurity - hiding things to protect them - always has its
limitations. What you hide can eventually be unhidden by somebody. Even the
administrative share, such as C$, can be seen by administrators.

If you are concerned about preventing access to certain files, you need to use
Advanced File Sharing - which is an option only for files and folders on an NTFS
volume, on Win XP Pro / Win 2000. If you have Win XP Home, yer outta luck.

More about file sharing, between all different versions of Windows:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=87c0a6db-aef8-4bef-925e-7ac9be791028&DisplayLang=en

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

If server with network share have NTFS - best way to do it is HideIt!
program from www.guard-software.com

Direct link:
http://www.guard-software.com/produc...deit_setup.zip

I took a look at the Hide-It program's website. Sailorman, I'm not sure
how much network administration you do on a daily basis, but comparing
Cloak to Hide-It is like the old Apples to Oranges debate...

Hide-it appears to be more of a home/consumer-based product where you
have a PC or a small workgroup. Cloak is designed for enterprise
networks where you have a lot of users connecting to one or more file
servers.

The biggest difference is that there is almost nothing to configure
with Cloak -- it simply relies on the security of NTFS that business
networks already have in place to give it direction. To dumb this down,
it provides Novell/Linux-like behavior to the Microsoft world.

With Hide-It, it appears that you must create a special/secret folder
and then grant/deny access to specific users/groups. This concept is
not new -- it has been around for a long time... Just do a seach for
"hide files" in Google and you'll see that there are a number of
cmpanies that make these consumer-oriented products. Here are just a
few:

http://www.baxbex.com/products.html?...1#foldershield
http://www.newsoftwares.net/folderlock/?id=gd
http://www.winability.com/folderguar...x=_hide_files_
http://www.magicfolders.com/

From what I can tell, the Cloak product is unique in its
implementation. Correct me if you think I'm wrong.

-Brian


sailorman wrote:
If server with network share have NTFS - best way to do it is HideIt!
program from www.guard-software.com

Direct link:
http://www.guard-software.com/produc...deit_setup.zip