hiding .xdefaults and .bash files from Win95 view in home directories

Robert Dahlem Robert.Dahlem at gmx.net
Mon Mar 1 00:09:39 GMT 1999


Mark,

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999 05:08:44 +1100, Mark Kaplan wrote:

>I am mapping our H: drives to each person's home directory on our Linux
>box using Samba.  Windows explorer sees the .xdefaults and .bash files
>which will confuse our users.  Is there a way to configure Samba so that
>these files cannot be seen from Win95/98?

"hide dot files" is your friend (this means: RTFM, indeed :-)

Hasta la vista,
              Robert
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