I've Samba 3.0.14a running without hassles on a ubuntu machine. Just one detail is bugging me. The recycle:excludedir doesn't seam to work. I've tried several options: absolute paths, relative paths, with and without comma...restarting samba, reloading, logging off and on. no chance this is my share: [projects] comment = put projects here path = /mnt/raid/projects valid users = root, @projects-read, @projects-write read list = @projects-read write list = root, @projects-write force group = projects-write create mask = 0775 force create mode = 0775 force security mode = 0775 directory mask = 0775 force directory mode = 0775 ;recycle bin options vfs objects = recycle recycle:repository = .Papierkorb recycle:keeptree = No recycle:versions = No recycle:touch = Yes ;recycle:touch_mtime = Yes recycle:exclude = *.tmp,*.temp,~$*,*.~??,*.bak recycle:excludedir = /0002_Footage recycle:noversions recycle:maxsize = 0