Dsync, Samba and copying files beginning with "dot"

[piesse]

I Started using Dsync to keep a backup of my system on a network drive
(GE MyBook World Edition) connected through Samba

After the first run, I see in the error log file a number of errors like:

DosOpen() failed, rc = 5 for file i:\e107\html\wiki\.htaccess - cannot
create file

All the files causing this wrror begin with a . (dot)

I also noticed that copy at a CMD prompt on rhe same drive fails on
those files (even if they are not in use and have the read-only flag
unset), while it works on the drive of an XP box, also connected through
Samba.

Does Samba have problems with files beginning with "." on some filesystem?

thanks,

Piersante

[Herwig Bauernfeind]

piesse schrieb:

Files that start with a dot are special files on *nix.

By default Samba hides them. There is a per share setting in smb.conf to
deal with these files:

hide dot files = yes|no

I briefly tested this and it seems to work as expected.

Kind regards,
Herwig

[piesse]

Herwig Bauernfeind wrote:
> By default Samba hides them. There is a per share setting in smb.conf to
> deal with these files:
>
> hide dot files = yes|no

Thanks. Unfortunately, this seems to work on the server side of samba,
so I can set it on the os/2 box, but not on the external drive, that
still refuses to write them (unless I find a way to access the smb.conf
file there)

Piersante