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Old 04-12-2008, 01:51 PM   #1
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Question Hiding Folders In User Directories On A Samba Server

Hi All,

The situation is this. I have Samba and Postfix installed on the same server. As you know Postfix creates the Maildir directory in the home directory in the server for each user and stores all the mail messages there. Now I have samba configured with home directories so what i want to do is to hide that folder from the user through the smb.conf file. This is so that the users dont delete the folder or fiddle about with it.

Is that possible?

Thanks,

BlackFish
 
Old 04-12-2008, 03:12 PM   #2
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You can try setting the mailbox to .Maildir in postfix, then using the "hide dot files" parameter in samba, which should be on by default:

hide dot files (S)

This is a boolean parameter that controls whether files starting with a dot appear as hidden files.

Default: hide dot files = yes

If that is not possible, you can try to use the chmod command to restrict access to it.
 
  


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