Hi, feeling like a complete newbie here, and I had thought I did know something in this universe already. Apparently not :( Following <https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch08.html> and looking a bit at <https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Shares_with_Windows_ACLs> and following various google instant search suggestions where people apparently having the same situation. I have one user on the linux machine, which exists as a network user on some windows machines as well. Simple workgroup. Windows machines connecting to a "network drive letter" from their windows. All to this same share. This share used to be on some win7 machine before, needed to move over to the leap 42.1 machine. One directory while living on windows, had the +h hidden attribute. Eventually I found the "map hidden = true" config setting with samba, and I only need this hidden property of that subfolder, so that it doesnt appear when the windows users browse that share. Only to find out that no matter what kind of masks and all that I set, the hidden property e.g. via ttrib driveletter:\foldername never shows up as hidden and dir driveletter:\ always shows that foldername as visible. Via Windows gui explorer.exe setting the folders property as hidden, doesnt affect anything either, it doesnt stay hidden, stay being the wrong word, the checkbox doesnt stay ticked, when revisiting the folders properties. the checkbox never gets applied to the actual filesystem of the samba. First and foremost am I completely mistaken, that when setting via ssh and terminal directly on the linux machine, the world execute properties of that folder path chmod o+x /file/path/to/samba/share/foldername should this render that foldername folder actually as invisible when I have that map hidden = true setting in my smb.conf? Because this doesnt work either. So where does samba store this mapping if not in the actual filesystem unix flags, it can live nowhere else or am I misunderstanding what this "map" is supposed to mean? Or is this some flaw in the leap 42.1 samba? I have: samba-4.2.4-21.3.x86_64 and I am on Linux linux 4.1.34-33-default What am I doing wrong? Thank you a lot. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org