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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace Storage Scale System
Created by Guest
Created on May 19, 2026

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ENABLE CONDITIONAL-BASED ENUMERATION ON THE ROOT SHARE FOLDER

Hello team, one of our customers uses Storage Scale for their main file server

They access it via SMB and they have requested for the ability to hide the shares/exports from a user that does not have access to them

 

For example, lets say the root share is //root and under it are /share1 and /share2

 

//root/

           /share1

           /share2

 

Lets say user1 has access to share1 and user2 has access to share2

 

If they both browse to //root from their windows endpoint,

 

user1 should only be able to see

//root/

           /share1

 

and user2 should only be able to see

 //root/

           /share2

Is this feasible?

 

Please keep in mind that we currently have around 700 shares/exports

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Jun 15, 2026
    This function already exists. See option hideunreadable for mmsmb command.
    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-scale/6.0.1?topic=reference-mmsmb-command

    hide unreadable
    If the value is set as yes, all files and directories that the user has no permission to read are hidden from directory listings in the export. The hideunreadable=yes option is also known as access?based enumeration because when a user is listing (enumerating) the directories and files within the export, they only see the files and directories that they have read access to. By default, this option is disabled.
    Warning: Enabling this option has a negative impact on directory listing performance, especially for large directories as the ACLs for all directory entries have to be read and evaluated. This option is disabled by default.
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