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I haven''t been to many IT shops that don''t have a stealth MP3 or game server in a corner somewhere In order to keep your secret, you may wish to apply this registry trick that will prevent the server from registering with the browser service. You can still attach to shares and other resources by name, but it simply won''t appear in browse lists.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services LanmanServer Parameters

Value Name: Hidden
Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 1 for hidden - 0 for visible

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