[cobalt-users] Weird files created on share by Apple computers

[Pierre Chopot <pierre.chopot@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello List,

  I have a Qube2 (80mb, 4.3gb) (I didn't put Qube2 in the subject, I
  don't think this Qube related) with SMB and Appleshare activated and
  I am up to Qube2F-Update-OS Release 2.0 (the french release of 3.0
  although promised on that list at least 2 months ago is not out
  yet).
  When a Mac creates/copies (drag an drop) some files on a share, most
  of the time it creates as well a file called Icon? (especially when
  these are graphic files). There is one in almost each directory. If
  you do a dir (telnet), the file shows as Icon\r and if you do a ls -la, it
  shows as Icon? , size of the file is zero.
  On a windoze machine, it shows as Icon followed by a small square.
  
  Problem 1: you cannot suppress/rename those files from a windoze machine and
  they don't show on a Mac
  
  Problem 2: if you try to copy a complete directory from the Qube to
  another drive (like a zip on the windoze machine for backup), it
  gets interrupted each time it encounters one of these Icon#$@# file.
  
  Question 1: am I the only one ? is there a way/setup to get rid of
  these annoying files.. on the Qube or on the Mac ?
  
  Question 2: what would be the command to recursively delete these
  through a whole directory tree ? I tried rm -r Icon?

  Thanks in advance.

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Regards,
 Pierre                          
 pierre.chopot@xxxxxxxxxxx