How can I get rid of / hide :2eDS_Store files on my linux netatalk server?

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Published on 2009-12-30T16:12:50Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 17:33 UTC
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I'm running a netatalk server process on my linux server that serves files up to Mac client machines. Whenever you use Mac's Finder to access foreign filesystems over netatalk, it creates '.DS_Store' files to store information about the folder.

Normally, these files would be hidden by default, and I wouldn't care. Unfortunately, netatalk doesn't allow access to local hidden files, so when the Mac writes and reads these, it renames them :2eDS_Store on the local filesystem. When you have a deep tree, you end up with these littered all over the place, and other Windows and Linux clients have to deal with them.

How do I make these available to Mac clients and hidden from everyone else?

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