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How to change system files back to normal in terminal

joshpond
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Hi All,

 

Not sure when this happened but some of my media files are recognised by windows as system files and hidden. Is there a command I can change the attributes like the dos attrib command?

 

I'd like to it to apply to all .iso files for instance (some are system files some aren't)

 

Like to dos command: attrib -s -h *.iso

 

Thanks Josh

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    This is the script I used a while ago and haven't had a problem since

    SCRIPT_DIR=/boot/custom/bin

    [ -d "$SCRIPT_DIR" ] || mkdir -p $SCRIPT_DIR

    SCRIPT=$SCRIPT_DIR/fix_samba_config.sh

    cat >$SCRIPT <<EOF

    sed -i -e 's/hidden\(.*\)[Yy]es\(.*\)/hidden\1no\2/' /etc/rc.d/rc.samba; /etc/rc.d/rc.samba restart

    EOF

    chmod +x $SCRIPT

    echo "$SCRIPT" >>/boot/config/go

    $SCRIPT

    http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4674.msg43603#msg43603

    Also see this, but haven't used it:

    http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12494.msg118665#msg118665

     

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    Would that be an issue with the samba shares even though only some show up as system files but others don't?

     

    It seems awfully complex, I thought it was just a file setting. When I copy the file from unRAID over to a windows PC, I can run the DOS attrib command and the file is all good again.

     

    Thanks Josh

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    Check out the topic in my signature [Files missing or hidden?]. It deals with the hidden and system permissions. It may also have additional discussions in that link.

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    That was the post I stumbled upon when I had the same problem.  Thanks BRiT!

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    It has to do with Samba using unix permissions to translate Windows attributes.

    Since I used the script....no more hidden files; and no other issues with Samba.

    prostuff1 BRiT also explained this very well...but right now all I could find was this

     

    http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=10647.msg101232#msg101232

    http://oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch05_03.html

    darn, I almost got credit for something I did not do.  :P

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    Thanks, Will have a read up on those topics

     

    Josh

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