On 0, barnabas at knicknack.net wrote: > Are you familiar with the veto option? It allows you to specify files > which will never be seen by the SMB client. I use qmail and since > it's mail spool is under the user's home directory, I was planning to > use the veto option to hide that directory from them. > > BTW, I just finished reading the O'Reilly Samba book, which is the > only reason I know this stuff. I highly recommend it. > > Eric > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 11:58:00AM -0500, Andy Zbikowski wrote: > > barnabas at knicknack.net wrote: > > > > > > In the smb.conf file there is an option, map hidden, which, if true, > > > uses the executable by others bit (0001) on Un*x files as the hidden > > > bit for DOS files. I think it is off by default. You may want to > > > check whether you really want to use it. > > > > > > > Don't remember why I turned that option on, but I really don't want it on I > > guess. (I think dotfiles were showing up in the users home directories and I > > was tryind different settings, and didn't turn that one back off.) > > > > Anyway, that cleared it up. My user can see all his documents now. Thanks. > > > I have just tried the following veto option in Samba config. veto files = /.*/ This is to hide all the dot files. At first I tried to use "hide dot files" option and that did not work. Then I did try the "veto files" option. That does not hide the dot files. How can you hide the .qmail* files and other dot files in the "veto files", using a wildcard character? -- Subba Rao subb3 at attglobal.net http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org