[Samba] filtering user files

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Yes, I was looking over my setup on my Fedora 3 ext3 FS and think that 
for Samba to now show the "dot" file would be good even though it had 
been suggested that we just map the user into a lower directory.

I think that the "hide dot files" directive should actually prevent the 
user from seeing or interacting with these file in their account.

Additionally, I still cannot figure out how to have Samba (or the 
windows side perhaps) popup as user login & password window when I run a 
local machine batch file like:

C:> NET USER * \\172.16.0.1

You see when the VPN has completed making the connection then we will 
execute this command so that the user can login to their account and as 
we do not know the username ahead of time on the Windows machine then we 
cannot really run a net command like:

C:> NET USER * \\172.16.0.1\lonnie

Any ideas on this as well?

Thanks,
Lonnie

Jeremy Allison wrote:

>On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:52:30PM -0500, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
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>>Yes, I think that you are right Kevin.
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>>Just tried the "hide" directives and they do not work. At least not on 
>>Windows XP and I am also using Samba 3.0.20 so I think that these are 
>>broken features that could be very useful if they can be made to work.
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>What underlying UNIX filesystem are you using ? If using ext3 or something
>with extended attributes then the dos attributes are read from a UNIX ea,
>and the "hide dot files" isn't currently executed. I can change that, but
>I'm wondering if this is indeed what you're seeing.
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>Jeremy.
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