hidding .files.

Joachim Feise jfeise at ics.uci.edu
Sun Mar 4 23:10:06 GMT 2001


Works perfectly for me in NT4 (with Samba 2.2.0 alpha2).
Of course, you need to have set Explorer to hide hidden files.

-Joe

David Rankin wrote:
> 
> Joe and Joachim,
> 
> I may be wrong, but I don't think hidedotfiles will hide files to the Windozs side
> of the house. If I recall, due to the way the DOS hidden file attribute is mapped
> for windoze and the way Linux tries to map it, I don't think it works. See the
> O'Riley documentation. That is where I recall seeing this.
> 
> Joachim Feise wrote:
> 
> > awesome-dave1 at juno.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >         When browsing my home directory from my 98 boxes I would really prefer
> > > not to see the .configuration files such as .profile, .bashrc, etc. Is
> > > there a way to do this?
> >
> > http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#hidedotfiles
> >
> > -Joe




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