Date: 14 Apr 2003 18:38:21 -0700 From: David Smithson <david@customfilmeffects.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to hide symlink'd dir Message-ID: <1050370701.4920.8.camel@blargh.customfilmeffects.com> In-Reply-To: <1050364357.4314.81.camel@blargh.customfilmeffects.com> References: <3EBFA476.8070905@comcast.net> <1050364357.4314.81.camel@blargh.customfilmeffects.com>
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Doh! Samba has an option to hide files or folders and keep them accessible. I should have looked there first. Thank you Samba. On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 16:52, David Smithson wrote: > Hi all. Long time no correspond. FreeBSD rocks and so on ... > > Previous to my system take-over here at work, user's blindly created > ill-named files and folders. One thing that really bugs me is the > liberal use of spaces in file and folder names. Though they are legal > and useable in modern systems, I still don't like them. One such folder > is a key access point that is referred to machine-wise in various > projects. It is called "Scans In". I wanted to slowly ween users off > of the "Scans In" folder, yet sustain compatibility in old projects, so > I renamed "Scans In" to "Scans_In" and created a symlink to "Scans_In" > called "Scans In". Now I want to make the "Scans In" folder invisible > and accessible. The parent dir is shared via Samba 2.2.7a on FBSD5. > > Is this possible given that symlinks have no flags? > > If so, how do I make this work? > > Thanks so much for your time. > > -- > David Smithson > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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