Hi guys,

As written before we use NetApp on Linux with NFS and CIFS for Windows, so far so good. One remaining problem is that Windows-Users keep seeing the dot-files (.gnome or whatever), which is a bit disturbing for the normal user. I thought there are some flags I can set that those files are shown as hidden files on Windows, but I couldn't find anything useful in the docs.

Anyone knows how I can do that (if at all)? Again, OnTap at the moment is 6.5.4

We set the hidden bit on dot files from Unix using smbclient.

setmode filename +h

We are using unix style file security, so we login to smbclient as the Unix root user.

To do this in bulk, I suggest building a file of setmode commands and using it as input to a single smbclient session, which is very fast.

Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640

University of Virginia ITC Unix Support