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I have Windows Home Server 2011 running. I can create users and set their permissions on folders, however it would be nice to hide the folders they don't have access to anyways. Is there a way you can do this, or manually tell a folder to be hidden for that user?

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The only way to hide the contents of a folder from someone is to remove read access to the folder. Once you have read access to a folder then you can see all the members of the folder – whether the user has further access to the individual members or not.

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I can hide the contents of the folder indeed, that's not a problem but I like to hide the folder as well since the user can't access or view it anyways. I dug into it on google and think it's called 'Access-based Enumeration' for Windows Server 2003 but can't find it on WHS 2011 :( – Mark Sep 26 '11 at 13:53
@Mark That's a new one on me – only applies to access over shares but that should be OK. The first WHS was derived from Win2k3, so it might work for you. First search hit was technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784710%28WS.10%29.aspx which includes a link to a tool to set this flag (on a share, rather than a folder within that share). – Richard Sep 26 '11 at 13:58
I am just afraid that update only works for Windows Server 2003 and will make my current Windows Home Server 2011 crash. Is that a possibility or can I safely try? – Mark Sep 26 '11 at 14:06
Because at the download page microsoft.com/download/en/… it says supported OS Windows Server 2003 – Mark Sep 26 '11 at 14:09
@Mark Have you tried it? It will probably work. – Richard Sep 26 '11 at 14:15
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