samba - Nov 1999 - "veto files" question

2.0.6

I'd like to use "veto files" to hide file beginning with a dot.
"hide dot files" is not sufficient as it relies on the win9x users
having chosen not to show hidden files.

I tried with

veto files = /.*/
but it seems to catch all files, not just the ones beginning with a dot.

Thanks.

-- 
giulioo@tiscalinet.it

I had that same result with veto files = /.*/. Just for fun I tried /\.*/,
and /./*/, and a couple others, and nothing hid just the dot files. /.b*/
hides all the dot files beginning with .b, if that helps any.

I finally pathed [homes] to path=%H/samba, with suitable root preexec to
create the directory, and that of course removed all access to the dot
files :-)

Steve Litt


At 01:14 AM 11/18/1999 +1100, Giulio Orsero wrote:
>2.0.6
>
>I'd like to use "veto files" to hide file beginning with a
dot.
>"hide dot files" is not sufficient as it relies on the win9x users
>having chosen not to show hidden files.
>
>I tried with
>
>veto files = /.*/
>but it seems to catch all files, not just the ones beginning with a dot.
>
>Thanks.
>
>-- 
>giulioo@tiscalinet.it
>