Ok, I got tired of watching this thread, so I looked up the object property, and here it is in all it's glory. This script will strip the description from ALL shares on whatever machine it is run on. strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colShares = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Share") For each objShare in colShares errReturn = objShare.SetShareInfo(,"") Next HTH, Jeff On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:53:09 +0100, Angus Macdonald <angus.macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That vast majority are already hidden by including $ in the share name. That > stops them appearing in on-screen browse lists but Win9x still sees the > whole list and chokes. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert K Coffman Jr - Info From Data Corporation > [mailto:bcoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 29 September 2004 15:38 > To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [windows2000] Re: Is there a tool to strip the comments field > from W2K shares? > > > Would hiding those shares help? > > - Bob Coffman > > -----Original Message----- > From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Angus Macdonald > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:03 AM > To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [windows2000] Re: Is there a tool to strip the comments field > from W2K shares? > > The majority of these machines are Windows 95 and therefore don't support > mapping drive letters to subfolders of shares and the thought of showing the > users a common folder with 600 home directories in it and saying "yours is > in there" doesn't appeal! 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