Hide network shared folder contents from users view

Question

I have this folder which i need to share it out on the network to facilitate patching from another pc but yet i want to prevent users from viewing the contents of the folder, is there any solutions for this?

if i hide the folder and share it out on the network, i realized that when the user do a //192.168.x.x/ from another pc , the folder contents will still be visible even if its hidden. What i wanted to achieve is that the user will be able to access folder thru the network but not able to see any files within the folder (meaning he shd see a empty folder). Is it possible???

Solution

You might want to look into Access Based Enumeration for Windows Server. I believe it is still possible for Windows Professional workgroups to accomplish the same thing using advanced ntfs permissions.