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Samba and Windows
WHERE ARE THE HIDDEN FILES IN LINUX? • The Linux filesystem doesn’t have a
hidden file attribute. Instead, filenames that begin with a dot, such as .profile,
are interpreted as hidden by most applications when displaying a list of files.
This is similar to the Windows Explorer setting of not displaying any files
with system file extensions, such as .dll or .sys. Linux file managers have settings to indicate whether or not to display hidden files. Samba also has a configuration option to indicate whether or not Linux’s hidden files should be
seen as hidden files by Windows.