How to use hidden shares as Storage Locations

DLO supports the use of hidden shares (for example; “Share$”) as Storage Locations on NTFS volumes or as network user data folders for FAT32 volumes. However, you must create and configure them manually. They cannot be created with the DLO Administration Console. Hidden shares cannot be used for FAT based Storage Locations.

The following permissions should be used:

Table: Permission settings for hidden shares

Drive Type

User or Group

Permissions

Share permissions on NTFS volumes

Administrator

Allow Full Control, Change, Read

Everyone

Allow Full Control, Change, Read

Security permissions on NTFS volumes

Administrator

Full control

Everyone

Allow Read & Execute

Allow List Folder Contents

Allow Read

Special security permissions or advanced settings

Allow Traverse Folder/Execute File

Allow List Folder/Read Data

Allow Read Attributes

Allow Read Extended Attributes

Allow Read Permissions

Advanced security permissions on NTFS volumes

Administrator

Allow Full Control

Everyone

Allow Traverse Folder / Execute File

Allow List Folder / Read Data

Allow Read Attributes

Allow Read Extended Attributes

Allow Read Permissions

Share permissions on FAT volumes

Administrator

Allow Full Control, Change, Read

Owner

Allow Full Control, Change, Read

Full Admin Group

Allow Full Control, Change, Read

Limited Admin Group

Allow Read

How to use hidden shares as Storage Locations