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?
The ._filename file is a part of the Macintosh file - if you prevent it being written then you will get errors when a Mac tries to write files on the share, if you delete it then you will damage the file (from the Macs point of view). Whilst many applications these days can cope with this damage (they don't use the resource fork, and can use the file extension to identify the file type), in other cases deleting the ._filename will make the file totally useless.
Simon
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