How can I have a Trash/Recycle Bin for my Samba shares?

Question

I have a couple of Samba shares on my NAS running Debian Squeeze which I access through Windows 7. Deleting any of the files from Windows will completely delete the files from the NAS server.

Is there anyway to have a similar feature installed like the Trash/Recycle Bin? It would be nice if there even was a similar concept as Delete, file goes to trash and is deleted, ShiftDelete, file is deleted and no keep copy is kept anywhere.

Is there such thing I could install?

Solution

I think you're looking for the vfs_recycle module to Samba.

• vfs_recycle - Samba VFS recycle bin | samba.org

In your smb.conf file for a given share:

[share]
Path = /data/share
vfs objects = recycle
recycle:repository = .recycle
recycle:keeptree = yes
recycle:versions = yes

Comments

[Juergen]

Try this nice little tutorial on how to activate the bin for samba shares. timtrott.co.uk/enabling-recycle-bin-functionality-samba

[m7913d]

Does this configuration supports the Shift+Delete feature to permanently delete the file as mentioned by the OP?

[slm]

@m7913d not sure, hadn't tried it. I suspect it will.