[Samba] failsafe against "stupid" / careless users

[Michael Joyner]

There exists a "Recycle Bin" patch for samba.

I use it here at Edward Waters College.

If you configure it just right, you can have it stuff the files into
a hidden folder that only the admin can access.

Buyer beware:  Office re-creates word, etc files everytime they are 
opened so you end up with LOTS of *.doc's in the Recycle Bin, (you can 
think of them as a revision history....)

Joel Hammer wrote:

> This is a common complaint. You would think that there would be a standard
> solution to it. I haven't seen one.
> 
> Maybe one of the samba developers could tell us how samba
> deletes files. It might be an easy hack to fix up the source code to
> do what you want. 
> 
> Joel
> 
> 
> 
>>I'm admin on a samba PDC with 150 users, and as normal users they are quit
>>"stupid". This means that they ofte deletes something that shouldnt have
>>been deleted. And I find it anoying to restore their files from tapebackup.
>>So would it be possible to get samba to "move" files instead of deleting
>>them? This way I could allocate a disk to store deleted files for a periode
>>of X days / weeks.
>>If this isnt posible, maybe the samba team should consider this option.
>>
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