[Samba] Can u prevent a macintosh from leaving it's of trash files on the shares?

[Simon Hobson]

Noel Kelly wrote:

>>I recently installed DAVE on two of the office Macintoshes.
>>(running 0S9.2 and OS8.6)(DAVE is mac to windows(samba) filesharing
>>utility)
>>
>>I use SAMBA from the testing version of DEBIAN.
>>
>>The mac's leave alot of files on the shares that i find annoying.
>>
>>Is there a method I could use to prevent the mac from leaving it's
>>"trash". (filname filtering perhaps)


>check the 'veto files' parameter.  We have this to deal with Mac files:
>
>  # Veto the Apple specific files that a NetAtalk server creates.
>         veto files = /.AppleDouble/.bin/.AppleDesktop/Network Trash Folder/
>         delete veto files = yes

May I suggest some caution in this statement : please make sure that 
this is the right thing to do FOR YOU before doing this. 'Most' 
Macintosh specific files have two parts, a data fork and a resource 
fork, plus additional directory/file data (over and above that stored 
in the unix directory entry). Only the data fork would be left by 
this veto which would make most Mac files unusable.

If you ONLY use 'cross-platform' files on this share then it won't be 
a problem, but if anyone uses it as a general store then they may 
find many of their files becoming useless.

Like I say, make sure it is the right move FOR YOU.

Simon

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