Right now i'm running a samba pdc for my win2k machines. All goes well pretty much. Except when it copies the profile to the server, the desktop.ini files, which should be hidden, are unhidden because of the change in filesystems. when copied back over all of the desktop.ini files are visible. a simple annoyance, but it's also visible in the startup folder... so i get a notepad document that opens every time. My question is, is there any way i can make these files hidden on the ext3 filesystem? i haven't heard of hidden files that didn't start with a . on linux before. Thanks.