I may need a strong shot of coffee but I though putting "hide files = /~*/" as follows in the samba config file would hide files with a tilde.

[homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes hide files = /~*/

Unfortunately after restarting the server the files are still visible.

If you have Windows Explorer set to show hidden files, they will appear in a dim color.

Quoting from the book "Using Samba" at http://oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch05_02.html

« Instead of simply hiding files beginning with a dot, you can also specify a string pattern to Samba for files to hide, using the |hide| |files| option. For example, let's assume that we specified the following in our example |[data]| share:

[data] hide files = /*.java/*README*/

"If we want to prevent users from seeing files at all, we can instead use the |veto| |files| option. This option, which takes the same syntax as the |hide| |files| option, specifies a list of files that should never be seen by the user. For example, let's change the |[data]| share to the following:

[data] veto files = /*.java/*README*/

»

I may need a strong shot of coffee but I though putting "hide files = /~*/" as follows in the samba config file would hide files with a tilde. Vandaman Wrote: [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = no writable = yes hide files = /~*/

# Try this ! # for the heck of of it "hides files = /.jpg*/" # Could be the tilde Character

Unfortunately after restarting the server the files are still visible.

JohnStanley Writes: Where is the folder at your using samba to share? Is this share on Windows? If so I don't think it will ever work. However it will work on Samba 3 and > under CentOS