Take the 2-minute tour ×  I currently have a number of read-only
directories shared for the public. There are a number of other
shares that only I have access to. Hence when other people try
to access the shares, they are asked for a username/password.  I
now want to hide these shares to everyone on the network, except
those with valid login credentials (aka: me). Currently my
security is set to share (that everyone else can access the
public shares). I’ve followed a lot of tutorials, but nothing
helps. Here is what I’ve tried:  hide unreadable = yes (still
shows for unauthorized users) browseable = no (hides it, but
also for authorized users) share|improve this question  1 Answer
1  I recently tried to do something similar and also tried the
browseable flag.  But as it hides it for everyone, it wasn't a
good solution.  I was sharing these folders on a linux host
(Open Media Vault which is a NAS oriented distribution). I
finally used an option to give access to samba users to "Home
folders".  If i'm not wrong