From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 14 18:37:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775C337B401 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rotini.customfilmeffects.com (frozboz.org [66.134.82.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF29B43F75 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:37:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david@customfilmeffects.com) Received: from [192.168.1.32] (lan32 [192.168.1.32])h3F1NAd05611 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:23:10 -0700 From: David Smithson To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1050364357.4314.81.camel@blargh.customfilmeffects.com> References: <3EBFA476.8070905@comcast.net> <1050364357.4314.81.camel@blargh.customfilmeffects.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Custom Film Effects Message-Id: <1050370701.4920.8.camel@blargh.customfilmeffects.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2- Date: 14 Apr 2003 18:38:21 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: how to hide symlink'd dir X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: david@customfilmeffects.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 01:37:04 -0000 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"