If I veto them will it prevent them from getting created on the filesystem in the first place? And them being annoyed with the way it looks isnt a big deal since several were actually being annoyed that one person had set it up to look a certain way and annother didnt like it.. etc.
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 00:12 -0700, Matthew Easton wrote: > On Sunday 03 April 2005 15:50, Matt Pruett wrote: > > I have a client who has a bunch of macs accessing some samba shares, and > > they write these ._filename and .DS_STORE files all over the place, he > > would perfer it to not write these files at all. Anyone ran into this > > issue? what would be the best way to prevent these files from getting > > written onto the shares? veto? > > > > -- > > Matt Pruett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > You can use the "hide files" directive, but windows clients can override it > with a "show hidden files" option in the tools menu of a directory window. > If most users have the default view options, this is an excellent way to hide > the files. > > "veto files" works too. If the macintosh clients are accessing the share > via > netatalk or some other appletalk-on-unix service, then the veto files > directive will not affect them at all. And likely, if they are using MacOSX > windows networking, it won't prevent them from accessing the share, but they > may be annoyed about how it looks. > > Here's what I have: > > veto files = /Network Trash Folder/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/Desktop > Folder/TheFindByContentFolder/Temporary Items/.DS_Store/ > > > !DSPAM:4250e93d73175305820540! > > -- Matt Pruett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba