What about hiding an SMB share on a mac?

A couple of days ago, I was dealing with the issue of trying to have home directories residing on Mac servers where the users would connect to these home directories which are auto created from their Mac workstations, but also, need these same home directories to be available for mapping via login script to the Windows clients. The problem that I was faced with, which also matches my philosophy about security, was that everywhere else where I had created shares, I had them setup as hidden shares. Something makes me uneasy knowing that users would be able to just browse all shares (Even though they can't really access them) if the shares are not hidden. Continue reading →