I've been playing around a little bit with the "veto files" option for the [homes] shares we have on our Samba servers (2.2.1a & 2.2.3a). I've discovered that: veto files = /.*/ works marvelously for not letting the users muck with their .dotfiles, which is exactly what we want, however, I've also discovered that it also clobbers the special directory entries "." and "..", which causes some programs to fail when reading the directory of the share. I thought, at first, that the "veto files" option took shell-style globbing as arguments, and tried: veto files = /.??*/ so as to only clobber directory entries that began with . and had at least two other characters in the name (thereby avoiding "." and ".."). However, that seemed to have the exact same effect as /.*/ did, and things like the command prompt or Word were unable to access the share, due to not getting information for "." (mapped as H:\). Is there a way to do what I want, or do i have to give up the "veto files" idea? many thanks. -- Gregory K. Ade <gkade@bigbrother.net> http://bigbrother.net/~gkade OpenPGP Key ID: EAF4844B keyserver: pgpkeys.mit.edu