Re: [Samba] Hiding dot files from Windows

2010-02-22 Thread alansecker
I feel a bit of an idiot. I had not realised that sambas 'converts' its hidden files into Windows style hidden files and therefore that they had tyo be switched off in 'folder options' in Windows as well as having 'hide dot files = yes'. Apologies to all -- View this message in context: http://

[Samba] Hiding dot files from Windows

2010-02-20 Thread alansecker
The user section of one of my smb.conf files looks like this yet when I bring up XP (a guest under VirtualBox) on my system, all linux dot files are visible. Am I missing somethng? [fred] comment = Alan's service path = /home/fred writeable = yes valid users = fred admin users