Spurious files in windows explorer....

[Doonbar]

Hello there hope someone can help. I have managed to set up my FC2 machine to be viewable on a windows network thanks to Jon's very good article...

http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=19967

However when I view my shared directory through windows, a lot spurios folders and files appear. I am guessing that I must need to add something to my smb.conf file which will hide these files from windows machines. They aren't visible when browsing the folder from the FC2 machine. The files/folders appearing in windows are...

.font-unix
.ICE-unix
.X11-unix
gconfd-root
kde-root
ksocket-root
mcop-root
orbit-root
ssh-DLdg2251

etc

Any help would be greatly appreciated.....

Doonbar

[macemoneta]

Check this online excerpt from the O'Reilly Samba book. In short add "hide dot files = yes" to your samba share definition.

[jayemef]

They aren't visible when browsing the folder from the FC2 machine.

This is because they are hidden files. On unix systems, anything beginning with a period is hidden. To see them, either enable the viewing of hidden files and directories in your file browser, or open a terminal and enter

ls -a

This has the -a flag, which stands for "all," effectively "listing all."

[Doonbar]

Thank you all for your help that has sorted it now....