[Samba] How does Samba delete files ?

[John H Terpstra]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Jeff Squyres wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, John H Terpstra wrote:
>
> > Oh, you mean like the recycle.so module for samba does. Fancy that, it's
> > there already!
> >
> > Refer to the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf available from:
> >
> > http://us1.samba.org/samba/devel/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
> >
> > See chapter 20.
> >
> > If this does not answer your needs, please let me know in time before
> > Friday so I can fix the documentation before Samba-3.0.0 ships and
> > before the HOWTO goes to the publisher.
>
> If you could add in there how users can recover deleted files, I'd really
> appreciate it.

That's a good suggestion. Done.

> Specifically, I enabled the recycle VFS module and it seems to work
> properly (deleted files get moved into the subdirectory that I specified
> in recycle:repository), but no "recycle bin" icon shows up in Windows
> Explorer, so there's no way for users to actually restore files.

Correct, except that they can go to the .recycle directory and copy any
file they deleted from there back into the file system.

Thanks for the tip.

- John T.

> Please see my [much more detailed] post from earlier today:
>
>    http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/2003-September/000395.html
>
> Thanks!
>
>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org