1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>vfs_netatalk</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.71.0"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="vfs_netatalk.8"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>vfs_netatalk — hide .AppleDouble files from CIFS clients</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">vfs objects = netatalk</code></p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id291819"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This VFS module is part of the 2 <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p>The <code class="literal">vfs_netatalk</code> VFS module dynamically 3 hides .AppleDouble files, preventing spurious errors on some 4 CIFS clients. .AppleDouble files may be created by historic 5 implementations of AFP (Apple Filing Protocol) on servers. </p><p>This module is stackable.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259323"></a><h2>EXAMPLES</h2><p>Hide .AppleDouble files on the [data] share:</p><pre class="programlisting"> 6 <em class="parameter"><code>[data]</code></em> 7 <a class="indexterm" name="id259556"></a>vfs objects = netatalk 8</pre></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259565"></a><h2>CAVEATS</h2><p>This module is largely historic and unlikely to be of use 9 in modern networks since current Apple systems are able to mount CIFS 10 shares natively. 11 </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259577"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0.25 of the Samba suite. 12 </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259586"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities 13 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed 14 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar 15 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p></div></div></body></html> 16