hide files from unix FS in samba

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 23:13 -0700, Matrix Mole wrote:
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> I've got samba up and running in my network, and everything is going
> great with one exception. I can't seem to get the 'hide files' directive
> to work properly. I've got a share with some directories in it that I
> don't want to be seen. I've already got the permissions setup on them so
> they can't be accessed, but I don't even want them to be in view. The
> problem is that these files will be accessible from a *nix based OS
> (linux and mac systems) as well as my windows box. I want to make it so
> that these directories are visible in a normal ls when I'm logged into
> the server directly, but not when it's mounted over smb. I haven't
> actually tested to see if the directories are hidden on a windows
> system, but for my macs and linux machines, the only way to get those
> folders out of view is to put a dot in front of them as is standard for
> unix. I was wandering if there was another way to do this? Googling has
> resulted in nothing but continued re-iterations of how to use the hide
> files directive, which I've tried setting up as I've mentioned. Any
> advice would be greatly appreciated.
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If the user in Windows chooses to view ALL files, they show up. Hide is
a property for 'normal' view but is not an absolute hide.

veto files is absolute and files and folders with matching names will
not appear (and can't be saved - DANGER HERE) and might be what you are
looking for.

Craig