Hide a Workgroup

**3fingersalute** · April 12th, 2006, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by CeeBee

It hides computer names and shares.. so I would assume it hides workgroup names too...

interesting, i've only ever used it for shares before. Well, even so, he could at least use it on the computer or share name the printer is physically attached to, which would help eliminate if being "discovered" by people browsing the network.

**PBase001** · April 17th, 2006, 08:55 AM

Just tested and unless I'm doing something wrong, my <Testworkgroup$> is viewable via my Windows 2000 machine from viewing <Entire Network>.

**CeeBee** · April 17th, 2006, 08:59 AM

Ok so then it doesn't work for workgroups.. only choice is to change the computer name or the share name (these 2 *do* work).

**PBase001** · April 17th, 2006, 11:19 AM

Actually you're probably on the right track here, just that hidden names applies to shares and a printer share would apply.

So if his printer share is, HPLasr (5 characters for pre-2000 machines) just make it HPLasr$ instead.

**Pluto** · April 18th, 2006, 04:56 AM

Many thanks for your suggestions guys - sorry about my late reply - had easter off. I will go try the $ share name option & let you know what happens.....

**Pluto** · April 20th, 2006, 05:18 AM

That didn't work unfortunately - can't hide the printer port from anyone who browses for a port when adding a new printer... will keep trying!

**PBase001** · April 20th, 2006, 07:06 AM

Give this a try.

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/kba...wsethread.html

**Pluto** · April 24th, 2006, 04:13 AM

No good either! I'll keep trying and investigating..

**PBase001** · April 24th, 2006, 07:05 AM

Have you flush the DNS cache of the computers?

<ipconfig /flushdns>

Also who administer the computers? XP has a habit of picking up shares automatically and you might have to remove old entries before the fix will work.