Samba Hide Office Temp Files
When working on Office documents like Word, Excel they create a temporary file when they are being worked on. This can sometimes confuse people working on SAMBA shares. See example These temp files will begin with a tilde (~) There is an option in SAMBA to hide certain files with a wildcard. Simply add this line: hide files = /~*/ This means any files with tilde will be hidden until ‘Show hidden files’ are selected in Windows explorer. To ensure they are not seen…