Prevent Windows from creating $RECYCLE.BIN folder on Samba share

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manpreet Tuteehub forum best answer Best Answer 2 years ago

Browsing a Samba share on a Windows machine, I notice after a short while that it has created a $RECYCLE.BIN folder in within the network share, usually containing a single desktop.ini file. How do I prevent my Windows clients from creating this file, either on the Samba server (Linux) or the Windows clients themselves?

Even if Windows creates the folder and I delete it on the server side, without deleting any other files, eventually the folder will re-appear (with desktop.ini inside of it). It's as if Windows is creating and deleting desktop.ini at random intervals.

A similar question asked how to prevent creation or hide this file, but I only want to know how to prevent creation.

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