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Have you ever attempted to access a folder that you didnt have permission to?<\/p>\n

Are you an administrator who is concerned about security principals without the proper permissions seeing the names of files and folders they dont have permissions to?<\/p>\n

SP1 and x64 address these concerns by making inacessible files and folders invisible to users through a neat little feature called Access-Based Enumeration (ABE).\u00a0 ABE in SP1\/x64 can be used with the command-line (abetool.exe) and through a fairly robust API (NetShareSetInfo).<\/span>\u00a0 FYI\u00a0– There is a GUI on the way.<\/p>\n

Command Line Sytax:<\/strong>\u00a0 abetool [<\/b>ShareName<\/i>]<\/b> [1<\/b>=on\/0<\/b>=off] [<\/b>ServerName<\/i>]<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Command Line Example: abetool \u201cPersonal Folders\u201d 1 FileSrvr1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As an IT Pro for many many years, I was personally surprised that this feature didnt get more attention.\u00a0 I remember back in my early Novell days thinking how cool it was.\u00a0 I suppose that leads to neat little trick with ABE – file shares that are migrated from other operating systems will behave the same way they did on the previous OS. (Cool!)<\/p>\n

There is a whitepaper on ABE that should hit the streets fairly soon, Ill post a link to it when I hear it is live.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

– Ward Ralston<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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